You must have missed Petersen's recent performance in Bangladesh. Apparently, you also present a biased view, as you are unaware of attempts to keep Africans (yes, those with darker skins) out of certain sectors of our nation's sport.

Xolani - you are talking BS. Absolute BS. Justify your accusation. I challenge you, show me in which sport are there white administrators keeping blacks out? Come on - put your money where your mouth is.

Sports and war should not suffer from political influence. Imagine having a quota system for the military (every third fighter pilot has to be from a certain category of humans - women, handicapped, colored, white and so on). This is ridiculous. In India they have medical college admission though the quota system where merit is given a backseat. I am always nervous about doctors there, not knowing who graduated through the quota system. Sports has to kept clean and only pure talent should be used to select players and athletes. This kind of quota system is not good for any country and South African cricket is going to pay for it. I think this will strengthen competing systems like the ICL. In a way I welcome that. Players will have an alternative to seek when treated unfairly. I really feel sorry for Nel.

It would be a shame if a lesser player was advanced into the team because of positive discrimination. But if two players were equal.......... I don't know about Botha/peteron (I have never seen them), but Nel, although he tries hard, is no champion, so would be a candidate for omission. The only thing is from my observation, he is a lot better than Langeveld who is at best, pedestrian. Greg you might get your wish.............SA could send their B team to India.

The ICC should change the rules where teams should be allowed to hire foreign players, say three at the most. When falling short of a specific talent, teams should be able to import that talent. Right now the Aussies are hurting for a quality spinner and India and Pakistan have ton loads of them who simply disappear into the oblivion. SA and Australia should be able to supply players to the depleted NZ and English teams. Right now an Aussie player is keeping wickets for England and is shining already. Many SA batsmen played for England. With the advent of the IPL, and with the use of foreign coaches, boards must be getting used for foreign talent. Those who don't get a chance at the highest level should be allowed to play for weaker teams until they can find their own domestic talent. Or players should be able to break off from their teams and join another team if things don't work out for them. Cricket is changing and I think this will be a good time to let talent flow freely and fill up the empty reserves. And culturally it is a uniting force.

You are all missing the point. In Africa it's all about dictatorship and dominance. The ruling party dictates as to how you will function and will harp on about colonialism being the reason for all shortcomings. They get rich and fat, and the masses that they promised so much get zero. A different type of apartheid, if you like. So, if you think sport is important to them, it's not, it's just another tool to exact retribution and control.

In many instances you are, sadly, right, Keith. Communism is like that. I feel sorry for all of the players involved in this debacle. It is difficult to imagine how Robin and Charl feel, in the midst of this. All power to them, for rising above it and not becoming embroiled in the predictable mudslinging. It is shocking the way we treat all of our national hero sportspeoples, ostensibly in the name of fairness, but in reality for political mileage. It is an inconceivable notion that the primary function of a national coach should be to ensure 'demographics', rather than to nurture a winning outfit, to the benefit of the country, as a whole. Transformation needs to be birthed at grass roots level, by the government encumbent, that the national team can be fed in abundance with the obvious talent that abounds in our beautiful country, and that one day this festering canker may slowly begin to leave our lives, and our valued sportsmen would not be used for political ping-pong, in a puerile effort to keep the electorate 'fired up'. Do us proud in India, boys !

Thank you, CSA, for ensuring that India will win the upcoming India-RSA test series THUMPINGLY ! I am very happy because I am a Patriotic Indian :) :)

I notice that football is not mentioned - is that because the players are almost all black?

On the ground... I believe traditional African custom is to a large extend to blame... the idea or philosophy of STRONG MUTI or strong medicine is widespread. In terms of this principle for REMEDY, results(cure) can often or only be secured by the MOST dire/deadly/dramatic methods ... 'curing' apartheid thus must, in this tradition, entail enough harm to see us to the brink before we can be healed ... this see's Zimbabwe lead the way as a shining triumphant star ... after 200 years in Africa, I assure you, you're wasting your breath if you attempt to move the 'folkmind' at a pace it cannot sustain ... if you're white, live with it, you're destined to sacrifice and be rewarded with little more than shame and blame from all but the more human among us ... those billions that tacitly say, 'I'm ditching my culture and want to imitate yours !' - While our ancestors that fled that culture and wisely warned that this, their culture contained BAD and GOOD, reap nothing but insult for their best intent... Nel and Botha are paying the rent

Howzit V.B.!! Boet, dn't start burning stuff in the stands yet, we'll beat you even with ne arm tied behind our backs. By the way, thanks for the motivation - the coach only has to point to your arrogant statement each time we take the field!

Howzit V.J!! Boet, don't start burning stuff in the stands yet! We'll beat you even with one arm tied behind our backs! Thanks for the motivation, by the way! Our coach need not say anything to motivate them before they take the field, he now just has to show them your arrogant, short sighted, submission!

Greg, it would be wonderful if the motives were that clear and that honourable. Wilbur Smith could write an excellent novel based on your theory! Sadly, having been born in and lived in Africa all my life, the bland truth is that there are no honourable motives in the politics of Africa, just greed an dominance. If you want to know what the rule of Africa always has been and is still today, it is the basic law of "the jungle", and that is that the strongest rule by feeding on and dominating the weak. That is why Zimbabwe and other political tyronies exist in Africa and why African politicians are among the easiest in the world to corrupt. That is why it nearly always takes a violant coup to dislodge one regime, to be replaced by one just as corrupt and greedy. Think in terms of how a Lion pride is eventually taken over by young males, who come in and drive off or kill the dominant male, and then kill all of his cubs so as to bring the females back on heat. The rule of the jungle.