Saturday, September 3, 2016

South Africa will have to perform with atleast six black players

South Africa's national cricket team will have to place a minimum average of six black players with immediate effect. Although, this is the first time they have been introduced for the national cricket team. The official targets are a minimum of fifty four percent black players (effectively six players other than white) with eighteen percent black players, which equates to two players in a team of 11. This effectively means an average maximum of five white players in a team. CSA president Chris Nenzani described the targets as “very attainable” and said the South African team was already meeting them. The targets will be measured as an average across all three forms of the game (Tests, One-Day Internationals and Twenty20 internationals) over the course of a season. The team that beat New Zealand in the second Test in Centurion met the target exactly. There were two black Africans in Temba Bavuma and Kagiso Rabada and four other players of color, Hashim Amla, JP Duminy, Vernon Philander and Dane Piedt. Nenzani found that the ODI team which competed in series against Australia and the Windies in the West Indies recently had up to eight players of color in the team.