IND vs SA Test Series – Cricket South Africa in Dock: The Cricket South Africa (CSA) board is in trouble & is likely to meet virtually on Saturday. The department of the social justice and nation-building (SJN) has alleged that the organisation had discriminated against players along racial lines. CSA’s director of Cricket Graeme Smith, Coach Mark Boucher, former captain AB De Villiers all have been accused of racism charges – Follow India vs South Africa series LIVE Updates on InsideSport.IN
According to reports in local media – agenda for Saturday’s meeting is the SJN hearings and that the appointments of CSA director of cricket Smith and Proteas coach Boucher will be under the microscope.
Both Smith & Boucher can be fired or suspended ahead of test series against India.
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Ahead of India vs South Africa test series CSA in dock on racism charges, Smith, Boucher & De Villiers pleads ‘NOT GUILTY’
IND vs SA Test Series: Graeme Smith, De Villiers Plead not Guilty: South African cricket great AB de Villiers has taken to social media to deny accusations of racism leveled at him.
Graeme Smith also has hit back through his lawyer at accusations of racial prejudice in the report.
The trio has all been guilty of discriminatory treatment of black players, including not selecting them based on race, according to the findings of a 252-page report.
David Becker, former International Cricket Council head of legal and Smith’s personal lawyer, issued a statement on Friday.
“Some of the findings are entirely questionable and without any basis,” said Becker, who claimed that lawyers for “various respondents” had raised “material concerns” about the integrity of the SJN
IND vs SA Test Series – SJN Report Findings:
- Appointments of Graeme Smith and Mark Boucher were flawed and the 2015-16 RamSlam match-fixing investigation was not racist.
- Mark Boucher, Graeme Smith and others have been accused of derogatory race based comments towards former South African leg-spinner Paul Adams, including singing a victory song that included racial slurs against Adams.
“I was called brown s… when I was playing,” Adams said.
“It often used to be a song when we won a game and we were in fines’ meetings. They would sing, ‘brown s… in the ring, tra la la la laa,’” Adams said.
“When you are playing for your country, when you have had that victory, you don’t make sense of it, you brush it off, but it’s blatantly racist.
“Some people will say unconscious bias and they weren’t aware but this is why we are here – to change that.”
Adams also felt during his playing career that he was left out of the side for off-spinner Pat Symcox based on race.
“It felt like they were suppressing me and hiding me away. I had a feeling they didn’t want me to outshine the white player and rather just left me in that corner and sit and listen.”
IND vs SA Test Series: Meanwhile away from all that is happening in South African cricket, Virat Kohli led India is already in South Africa. The 1st test against the Proteas begin on 26th December.
India has never won a series in South Africa in its previous attempts.
- Overall India has played 7 Test Series in South Africa & has never been succesful.
- 2010 Series was India’s beat performance – India managed drawing the 3 test series 1-1 under MS Dhoni.
- In 20 Test Matches in SA – India has only won 3 Test Matches, Lost 10 & have drawn 7
- In the last series in 2018, India lost the series 2-1
India’s Test squad: Virat Kohli (Captain), KL Rahul, Mayank Agarwal, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane, Priyank Panchal, Shreyas Iyer, Hanuma Vihari, Rishabh Pant (wicket-keeper), Wriddhiman Saha (wicket-keeper), R Ashwin, Jayant Yadav, Ishant Sharma, Mohd. Shami, Umesh Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Shardul Thakur, Md. Siraj
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