God help me - the Test Cricket thread

[ElwoodBlues1]

We think our team is a rabble, take a look at the Saffies.

This is about as hard as the evidence will get against the use of quotas and diversity to the balance the ledger and improve the outcome.

In business, politics and sport you always get an argument from various apologists that diversity and quotas lead to better outcomes, but in my experience it's the dead opposite of what really happens.

Maybe, just maybe, having a nice quota and lots of diversity is more about making some people feel better with a mediocre outcome.

Just maybe, if the quotas and diversity policies survive for long enough, they will make it back to the where they were before they lost all that ground!

Surely, with and academia and politicians "working together" to resolve these issues, there are better solutions that can be arrived at than quotas, perhaps if we just rename the plan to a policy of mediocrity we won't be disappointed and it can be labelled a success! :o

Saffies have no money, they are sacrificing test cricket for short format cricket where they can make a rand or two.
Graham Smith who is now their cricket boss said none of the local companies will sponsor cricket in SA and Indian owners of the IPL teams now sponsor their main 20/20 comp.
Agree on the quota situation, it has destroyed their test lineup and they are no longer the fearsome team they were when Smith was captain and they had the best players in the world. Their better players have also been lured to England over the years and they are now a C grade lineup who if you look at the fixturing are barely playing any test cricket over the next few years except vs the other lesser countries. The success of bazball has further ruined test cricket and I can see 4 day test matches in the future and more short format games and traditional long format test cricket will disappear.