Things have certainly changed around the England dressing room and one former England captain is not appreciative of it.
Michael Vaughan is increasingly worried about the growing number of South African origin players int he England team, a concern he also expressed in his book when he alleged that Jonathan Trott went partying with the South Africans after the Edgbaston Test of 2008.
Vaughan stated, “I would like to see, in an
ideal world, 11 complete Englishmen in the team but I don’t think
that’s ever going to be the case.”
Ian Botham, for one, did not appear to be worried or overtly concerned that the South Africans were shunning the quota system back home for lucrative opportunity to play international cricket, “These guys have made their home here to play for England and I don’t have a problem with that. The biggest problem for me in England is Kolpak, and that’s down to European law. What the Europeans have got to do with it, I don’t know. They don’t like cricket.”
Vaughan appears to have a soft corner for KP thought, “It’s a very tricky one. Someone like Kevin Pietersen made the decision very early to come over to England and he learnt a lot of his cricket here. It’s very, very difficult to stop them.”
One man who is not bothered, Craig Keiswetter, who turned down Graeme Smith’s appeal to return to the South African fold, “It’s something that I’m going to have to put up with for my whole
career, but I was born with a British passport, I’ve done my four
years, I am British, and I don’t see it as an issue.”
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