Merit has became the main criteria for getting into the South African cricket team and not color

Posted on June 3, 2009
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The rise of the likes of Duminy and Prince seems to have silenced the critics of transformation

The rise of the likes of Duminy and Prince seems to have silenced the critics of transformation

South African cricket selectors are now quite into the stream of merit selection and that is why the south African team became the top in the one-day ICC ranking overtaking Australia.There were 7 black players in the team when they won a series in Australia as well as in England.

The players like Ashwell Prince and jean Paul Duminy became the stars of that series.J P Duminy was also in the team before but he didn’t even get one game for most of the series to show his cricketing talents.what is the reason,color…?
And at last he had got a chance to play since Ashwell prince got an injury and Duminy showed his talents with his excellent knock of 166 runs in the match against which clinched the series against Australia.

J P Duminy had a great IPL tournament this year in which he scored a total runs of 372 runs from 13 games and he was quite consistent all through the IPL T20 tournament both with the bat and ball.But his talents were not seen by the South African selectors for a long time since his talents were covered by his skin colour and it was revealed by the IPL.

Mark Boucher,the South African wicket keeper said that the South African cricket team selection had improved a lot now a days since they are almost selecting the team on the basis of merit and not on the colors like black,white,pink,blue etc.

There was a great problem of racism always in South African cricket system.It became a great issue when Mkhaya Ntini was first selected into the team because of his black color but he was a successful pacer for the team.Its 21st century,lets hope the racial discrimination will end up at least in the fields of sports and games.

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