Barry_McKenzie wrote:
Prince of Denmark wrote:
Barry_McKenzie wrote:
Dont worry..it's no shame to come from a country that has to rely on South Africans to fill up it's national cricket team.
Like Kepler Wessels for instance?
I was thinking more along the lines of Johnathon Trott, Andrew Strauss, Matt Prior and Kevin Pieterson who are in the current Ashes side.
Oh and your current South African coach Andy Flower
But I suppose you could include other players like Michael Lumb and Craig Kieswetter in the Twenty20 plus guys from the past like Tony Greig, Robin Smith and Alan Lamb.
And thats just the ones I can think of.
I'm still backing South Africa C to win the Ashes.
Well you're clearly not thinking very hard, which is unlikely to surprise anyone else on here. You might also have mentioned K.S. Ranjitsinhji, Basil D'Oliveira, Phil Edmonds, Robin Jackman, Roland Butcher, Norman Cowans, Wilf Slack, Derek Pringle, Neal Radford, Devon Malcolm, Chris Smith, Graeme Hick, Usman Afzaal, Dermot Reeve and a few others besides. And keep an eye out for Jade Dernbach, Chris Jordan and Stuart Meaker (and that's just from one county club) amongst others over the next couple of years.
The bottom line is that one of our countries is a cosmopolitan melting pot that assimilates newcomers and allows them to thrive and flourish, and has done for thousands of years, and I'm pleased to say it's not Australia.
For a bloke who reckons to have no time for Test cricket you seem to devote an inordinate amount of energy towards following it and writing about it. Anyone might think you're a total loser with no friends who needs to get a life.
Oh, and one final pooint. You might be a little premature in writing off your own nation's chances. They've just called up reinforcements in the form of the Pakistani Usman Khawaja. "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em" eh?
