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Has
the South African cricket team now become immune to dirty
business? With so much that they have had to face, is it true that
they could not care less for any more mud slinging? Why else would
the South African cricket team slip away into Brisbane totally
unconcerned over an interim report into the country's match-fixing
scandal?
Total
unconcern was reflected in the way the report was casually
shrugged off by the players. Or maybe it is the only sensible
thing to do. If the team needs to retain their sanity, play good
cricket and concentrate on what cricketers are supposed to do,
that is, well…. play cricket - then they better not take to
heart any more complications that the scandal might bring in.
Captain
Shaun Pollock, speaking at Brisbane airport, ahead of next week's
one-day series against Australia, said that the morale of the team
was unlikely to be affected by the findings of the report.
"Not at all," said he, "there's been a cloud
hanging over our head for the last few months ever since the story
broke." That we do know, Pollock. And the world does
sympathize with them as well, that is on condition that they too
are not hand in glove with Mr. Cronje. But that precisely is what
the cloud is all about - a cloud of suspicion that haunts every
South African cricketer. "I don't think it's going to reveal
anything new so the chaps aren't worried about it at all." It
is going to take a lot more now than reports to unnerve the South
African team.
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