Savak
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Have come across so many articles which highlights that Cricket in South Africa is facing a rapid crisis
- Dwindling interest among the South African public for Cricket which has led to lower attendances for international games. Domestic games are more or less unwatched which has lowered the quality of domestic cricket. Cricket in South Africa is competing with far too many sports in South Africa i.e. rugby
- Dwindling interest among broadcasters and sponsors for Cricket in South Africa, loads of wineries and brewery companies who were long term supporters of the South African team have more or less ended their sponsorships of the teams and Cricket South Africa is desperate for sponsors
- The quota policy and its negative repercussions on South African Cricket leading to a Kolpak exodus. Cricket South Africa was concerned about the lack of talent, players coming through the ranks because of which they decided to change their domestic structure and introduce an additonal 6 teams in their domestic structure but this move has been challenged in court by the South African Cricketers Association out of concern that this will lower the quality of domestic cricket and also negatively impact the amounts to be paid to domestic cricketers
- Cricket South Africa is estimated to be dealing with debts of up to $45 million in the next 4 years and with declining sponsorships, insufficient revenue streams, they have to increase revenue and reduce their costs, expenditures. This means curtailing budgets for U-19 cricket tours, A team tours, domestic academies, development programs, amounts that can be paid to ex-legends to serve South African Cricket. Cricket South Africa in desperation has reached out to the stars of the 90's and 2000's i.e. Graeme Smith, Shaun Pollock, Jacques Kallis, Hashim Amla to get involved in South African Cricket with either the national side, domestic cricket or the U-19, A teams but they have all refused to so far because the amounts they are being paid from their broadcasting deals are far more than what CSA can afford to pay them and with the harsh economic environment in South Africa where a lot of South Africans are leaving abroad for better economic opportunities, you can't blame the ex players for refusing to take a huge pay cut for patriotic reasons.
- The retirements of ex legends, kolpak exodus means that there is a dearth of experienced players playing alongside a lot of rookies in domestic cricket which means that the domestic cricket structure in South Africa is an absolute shambles right now.
- Faf Duplesis the South African captain criticized CSA for not planning or forseing the massive gap and holes that would be left when the previous super star players like Graeme Smith, Jacques Kallis, Hashim Amla, Dale Steyn, Morne Morkel would eventually quit. Darryl Cullinan actually forsaw this problem and expressed huge concern in 2015 when South Africa were doing really well with all the super star players in the team where he pinpointed that the talent stocks at the U-19 levels, A team levels were zilch and not good enough to replace the senior players and that South Africa would have huge problems later on.
South Africa was in my view the best team in the world in the 90's outside their chokes in the big tournaments. In the 2000's, they were the number 2 team in the world after the invincible Australians and upto 2015-17 they were the best in the world. I wonder if there luck has finally run out for good as well, eventually they were going to stop producing elite world class players at some point.
Even though Pakistan got trashed 3-0 in the test series, i was not impressed at all by the South African team, they clearly looked to be far inferior compared to the teams they had in the past. The scoreline 3-0 reflected more Pakistan's incompetency rather than South Africa's brilliance.
My prediction is that we have now seen the best of South African Cricket and now they are heading in the direction of the West Indies.
- Dwindling interest among the South African public for Cricket which has led to lower attendances for international games. Domestic games are more or less unwatched which has lowered the quality of domestic cricket. Cricket in South Africa is competing with far too many sports in South Africa i.e. rugby
- Dwindling interest among broadcasters and sponsors for Cricket in South Africa, loads of wineries and brewery companies who were long term supporters of the South African team have more or less ended their sponsorships of the teams and Cricket South Africa is desperate for sponsors
- The quota policy and its negative repercussions on South African Cricket leading to a Kolpak exodus. Cricket South Africa was concerned about the lack of talent, players coming through the ranks because of which they decided to change their domestic structure and introduce an additonal 6 teams in their domestic structure but this move has been challenged in court by the South African Cricketers Association out of concern that this will lower the quality of domestic cricket and also negatively impact the amounts to be paid to domestic cricketers
- Cricket South Africa is estimated to be dealing with debts of up to $45 million in the next 4 years and with declining sponsorships, insufficient revenue streams, they have to increase revenue and reduce their costs, expenditures. This means curtailing budgets for U-19 cricket tours, A team tours, domestic academies, development programs, amounts that can be paid to ex-legends to serve South African Cricket. Cricket South Africa in desperation has reached out to the stars of the 90's and 2000's i.e. Graeme Smith, Shaun Pollock, Jacques Kallis, Hashim Amla to get involved in South African Cricket with either the national side, domestic cricket or the U-19, A teams but they have all refused to so far because the amounts they are being paid from their broadcasting deals are far more than what CSA can afford to pay them and with the harsh economic environment in South Africa where a lot of South Africans are leaving abroad for better economic opportunities, you can't blame the ex players for refusing to take a huge pay cut for patriotic reasons.
- The retirements of ex legends, kolpak exodus means that there is a dearth of experienced players playing alongside a lot of rookies in domestic cricket which means that the domestic cricket structure in South Africa is an absolute shambles right now.
- Faf Duplesis the South African captain criticized CSA for not planning or forseing the massive gap and holes that would be left when the previous super star players like Graeme Smith, Jacques Kallis, Hashim Amla, Dale Steyn, Morne Morkel would eventually quit. Darryl Cullinan actually forsaw this problem and expressed huge concern in 2015 when South Africa were doing really well with all the super star players in the team where he pinpointed that the talent stocks at the U-19 levels, A team levels were zilch and not good enough to replace the senior players and that South Africa would have huge problems later on.
South Africa was in my view the best team in the world in the 90's outside their chokes in the big tournaments. In the 2000's, they were the number 2 team in the world after the invincible Australians and upto 2015-17 they were the best in the world. I wonder if there luck has finally run out for good as well, eventually they were going to stop producing elite world class players at some point.
Even though Pakistan got trashed 3-0 in the test series, i was not impressed at all by the South African team, they clearly looked to be far inferior compared to the teams they had in the past. The scoreline 3-0 reflected more Pakistan's incompetency rather than South Africa's brilliance.
My prediction is that we have now seen the best of South African Cricket and now they are heading in the direction of the West Indies.
