‘Politics had a role to play’ in South Africa’s team selection for World Cup semifinal
Mumbai: South African cricket team’s high performance coach Mike Horn on Thursday said that the team selection during the World Cup semfinal against New Zealand was ‘interfered with’.
The adventurer, who had previously worked with Indian cricket team during their World Cup triumph in 2011 and with Germany’s football World Cup winning unit in 2014, told Eyewitness News about how ‘quota’ system in South African cricket led to changes in the playing XI in the World Cup 2015 semifinal which South Africa lost.
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#Proteas Mike Horn on “politics” linked to a “quota” in the team selection for the #CWC15 SF with NZ @JeanSmyth pic.twitter.com/GtJ5kgipDV
— EWN Sport (@EWNsport) April 16, 2015Mike Horn also told the new channel that he had to motivate the team even further following the incident; a job in which he ‘failed a bit.’
#Proteas Mike Horn on how he had to re-motivate the team before the SF with NZ Full story: http://t.co/rov4R8jh4k pic.twitter.com/39bb4oG4rC
— EWN Sport (@EWNsport) April 16, 2015