South Africa is fuming. Their cricket team is now number one in both, the Tests and the ODIs, and yet they feel that the services of their men have been overlooked for the Oscars of cricket.
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The South African board, including its chief executive, Gerald Majola, is fretting about the fact that none of the South African players have been shortlisted for any of the categories of the LG ICC Awards ironically in the same year when South Africa have touched the pinnacle of the two formats.
Calling this a snub, the board is disappointed that their players have not received the recognition they deserve and rightly so. South Africa have been the team on the rise and their meteoric rise over the last eighteen months has seen them scale many a mountain and there have been match winning individuals that should at least been nominated.
Majola has now made his own line famous, telling one and all news reporters that perhaps only playing in the Ashes would help in the nominations that were narrowed by a selection of twenty-five people associated with the game including former cricketers and journalists from the game.
South African coach, Mickey Arthur, has stated that the overlook would prove to be extra motivation for the boys for the ICC Champions Trophy also to be staged in South Africa as also the awards on the 1st of October in Johannesburg.
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