导出博客文章It is the year 2020. Kagiso Rabada has played for Sydney Sixers, Delhi
Daredevils and Jamaica Tallawahs and is deciding between a return to Kent or
making himself available for South Africa for a Test match. Rabada has not
played for his country since 2018, in the World T20. He sat out 2019 because he
chose the Pakistan Super League instead.Youve heard these kinds of scenarios
before, and perhaps youve even started to believe they will come to exist,
especially if you are a follower of South African cricket.Why them in
particular?With some of the most celebrated names in the game - think AB de
Villiers, Hashim Amla, Dale Steyn - and a team that has until recently occupied
top spot in Test cricket and hovered around there in ODIs, their players are in
demand in T20 leagues and at home, and they increasingly have reasons to favour
the former.While T20 leagues offer US dollar income and freedom from politics,
playing for South Africa means being paid in declining rands, and a
responsibility to nation-building, which involves buying into CSAs aggressive
transformation policy. The word from some former players is that the more
valuable currency and the gigs with less baggage are likely to win out, despite
the fierce loyalties bred through the South African school system that make
players second-guess themselves.One former player told ESPNcricinfo that money
will be 80% to blame for the exodus. International player body FICAs 2016 report
painted a financial picture that showed the disparity that exists between
centrally contracted national players and T20 mercenaries everywhere except in
England and Australia (and presumably India, but their players do not have a
union and so are not included in FICA reviews). A player who is part of three
domestic T20 leagues a year takes home an average of $510,000. Cricket South
Africa ($346,494), Sri Lanka Cricket ($234,500), New Zealand Cricket ($231,000),
the West Indies Cricket Board ($225,625) and the Bangladesh Cricket Board
($67,935) all pay their players much less.For South Africans, whose currency has
devalued 30% against the US dollar in the last 12 months, the monetary lure of
earning foreign currency is too good to turn down. In a column for SA Cricket
magazine in February, former Test opener Alviro Petersen he predicted that South
Africa could lose their best players in 18-24 months.At the time Petersen used
himself as an example. He was denied a no-objection certificate to play in the
Masters Champions League because his South African franchise, Lions, wanted him
to honour his contract with them. Petersen underlined what that cost him. I
could have earned what the Lions pay me in a year for just two and a half weeks
at the MCL, he wrote. We might see some players decide to play Big Bash rather
than play a Test series in December. This is reality! Watch this space…As it
turns out, several sources have confirmed two of South Africas top bowlers are
considering exactly that. The Big Bash coincides with South Africas home series
against Sri Lanka and there is an expectation of high-profile retirements from
international cricket ahead of that.Money, though, will not be those players
only reason for going. It is fast becoming an open secret in South Africa that
the implementation of the transformation policy, which CSA is vehemently
adhering to in a bid to have its ministerial ban against hosting major
tournaments lifted, is causing players to question their commitment. Several
players and administrators confirmed that the uncertainty around the application
of the policy is causing concern (though none was willing to speak on the record
about an issue that is sensitive and controversial and has cost people jobs).CSA
maintains that there is no target at national level but has signed a memorandum
of understanding with the sports ministry that requires it to field, at domestic
level, teams that contain six players of colour, of which at least three must be
black African. This has presented franchises and provincial teams with
conundrums over the balance of their sides, but many coaches feel they are
starting to settle into the new structure. However, at national level it gets
more complicated, and a number of centrally contracted players are understood to
be looking for options abroad because they feel they are being marginalised by
the targets.Even for the rest, playing cricket for the national side is losing
its appeal. FICAs CEO, Tony Irish, told ESPNcricinfo that bilateral
international cricket as a product, and as an experience for players, is
struggling because players want big crowds, close contests and matches that have
context and sporting narrative. T20 leagues offer all of those things and in a
shorter time frame than international cricket, which is a factor, especially for
players who have families, as Irish points out.That is where many of South
Africas stars find themselves at the moment, with young children and partners
who spend months living out of suitcases, and it has taken its toll on their
performance. National coach Russell Domingo cited overwork as the main reason
the team was unable to qualify for the final of the Caribbean triangular series
this June. By the time they got there, some of them had come through their
busiest summer season in recent memory, which included eight Tests, a World T20
and an IPL. Others then went straight from the West Indies tour into the CPL,
and they will go from that into Tests against New Zealand and ODIs against
Australia at home. The Australia fixtures, in particular, are an example of the
kinds of matches that lack context. It is not too difficult to imagine players
pulling out of that and other limited-overs series unless they can be persuaded
to play on.That has already happened with Morne Morkel, who is understood to
have been seriously considering retiring from limited-overs cricket after being
left out of the World T20 squad. He was even due to play for Glamorgan over the
South African winter. But he was included in the national squad to the West
Indies - where he was only included in two out of six starting XIs - and
convinced not to call it a day.Morkel is not the only one. Last season was
dominated by reports of de Villiers pondering early retirement. De Villiers
admitted there was a little bit of truth to the talk and spent several press
conferences discussing the need for a more flexible schedule. In fact, he only
recommitted fully to South African cricket after he was made permanent Test
captain at the end of the England Test series.Several other former players saw
that as a dangerous sign that some players are becoming too powerful. These
players know the system needs them and they know they can use that to their
advantage. They can make threats about wanting to walk away, so in the end they
get what they want, one said.In effect, South African cricket could end up being
held to ransom by its headliners, and the cricket economy is such that there is
little anyone can do to stop that.The South African Cricketers Association
remains of the view that international cricket should still be the pinnacle for
players, but tempers that with a cautionary clause. This needs to be balanced
against also giving players some freedom to participate in vibrant T20
Leagues.Irish feels that South African players have, up to now, been pretty
loyal to the country cause but that one cant expect the best players in the
world - and again this applies in all countries - to blindly commit to the
country loyalty when there are more and more games without context and more and
more one-sided matches played in half-empty stadia, when in the other market its
the opposite. He, along with his FICA colleagues, is pushing for a restructure
of bilateral international cricket.Until that happens, South Africas
administrators will have to continue to find ways to be flexible. They have
already showed some signs that they are, at all levels. Dale Steyn was given an
NOC to play in the NatWest T20 Blast during South Africans West Indies tour,
though the official line was that he was supposed to be resting. In the womens
game Dane van Niekerk, Shabnim Ismail, Marizanne Kapp and Lizelle Lee will miss
South Africas tour of Ireland because they were given permission to play in
Englands Super League T20. CSA has recognised that for players to commit to a
low-paying national cause, they have to be allowed to capitalise elsewhere, but
they may also be hoping that international cricket realises the need to move
towards a more football-like model before the players move it there themselves.
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MEXICO CITY, Mexico -- Lewis Hamilton was nearly dealt a critical blow to his
title chances on the opening lap of the Mexican Grand Prix when his Mercedes
team considered pitting him from the lead.Hamilton locked his front right tyre
into the first corner due to a glazed brake disc, resulting in him taking to the
run off and cutting Turn 2 completely. He escaped a penalty from the stewards
but the lock-up severely damaged his right front tyre with a flat spot.Mercedes
were ready to pit Hamilton at the end of the first lap, but a safety car period
for a collision between Pascal Wherlein and Marcus Ericsson gave the pit wall
enough time to revaluate the situation.It was huge, Hamilton said. A massive
flat spot and I honestly thought that I was going to have to come in. When I
came out of the chicane I honestly thought I was coming in that lap and that was
my race pretty much done. But they told me to stay out, the safety car came out
and they felt that we could live with the vibration and it wouldnt damage the
suspension. It was getting worse and worse even though I wasnt locking up any
more. But I had to take a lot of precautions while trying to nurse the car to
the 17th lap.Team boss Toto Wolff said the vibrations caused by the misshaped
tyre llooked scary on the teams data.ddddddddddddWith all the bad luck Lewis has
had throughout the season, he got some of that back today, some of the good luck
back, because he badly flat-spotted the tyre. The vibration matrix was scary
from the beginning. We had quite a conversation on the radio about whether we
should pit him for safety reasons.In any other race we would have pitted him and
lost the race. We kept him out there in order to not throw away the championship
for him. Every single lap, every single straight, we monitored the vibrations.
Our team did a fantastic job in keeping that under control and then we pitted
him a bit earlier because the vibration matrix was going sky high and a
suspension failure could have easily happened.Hamilton made it to lap 17 with
the flat spot before changing tyres, which Wolff said was crucial to staying on
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