Prince pointed to the aftermath of a team meeting following the 2007 World Cup tournament, that destroyed his trust in the South African system and of his fellow teammates. At what was supposed to be a ‘clear the air’ meeting involving, players coaches and some senior Cricket SA officials following that tournament, in which there was plenty of acrimony between the players, one white player according to Prince said the reason for South Africa’s failure was the “quota system”.
“We said: ‘If you think the team lost because of quotas, then scrap the quota system. We were firm believers that we were good enough to be in the team, we believed we were better than some white players. If anyone didn’t think so, we wanted them to tell us to our face.” “I didn’t care if I played another game for the country or not. For me, that was not a team, because that was the kind of environment we played in – we were never one, never,” Prince remarked.
There are people in the comments below who have no clue what it meant to be on the receiving end of racism and boetie boetie. This is the reason why there's war on club level rugby.Throw in a bias white referee and see the spectators go mad. If you never experience this,sit down.
Why are they speaking out after retirement? Ba Bora!
If you are a quota player you do not deserve to be in the team
Is there a quota system for Soccer?
It’s funny how this ‘quota system’ is only associated with non- White players.
I’m really sad to read about the disunity in the Proteas. I thought it was a great team at the time
Wow! Deep observation. We have decided to not select the best team possible, but somehow by magic this will not affect the performance of the team.
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You can’t beat the truth. Politics has no place in sports. Once you turn all the national teams into losers because of quota systems the public will lose interest. 50% of brilliant white sportsmen today simply leave SA to play elsewhere because lesser players will get the spots
Time for athletes, sportmen and politicians to be there on their merits. Sadly not too many politicians will make it
White SAns do not have the moral authority to lecture black SAns about meritocracy they know nothing about.
He was talking kak. Who were the quota players in the 2007 world cup squad?
It paid off in rugby after some time and if cricket was open to it long ago maybe we would be ripping the rewards by now going forward. “We must get on with it man”.
I agree with that quota system comment!!👍🏻 Time to do away with it and BBBEE!!
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Some of us were able to see this things.
Quotas are dehumanising! Finish and klaar!
And he was probably correct. Any self-respecting player wants to be in a team on merit AND prove his worth and NOT because of skin colour !
It was definitely a problem. Meritocracy is vital. But Prince was a meritocratic selection, now he is doubting that? Exactly why quotas suck
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