IRR poll: 82% of black South Africans don't want quotas | Sport24news
at the upcoming Cricket World Cup in England.earlier in the week in which Cricket South Africa CEO Thabang Moroe said there will be no transformation targets for coach Ottis Gibson and convenor of selectors Linda Zondi to adhere to at the tournament.
"There are no targets. They can decide themselves on the composition of the 15-man squad. We want the best 15 players to be picked so that we can win the tournament. The same goes for the 11 that step on to the field. I don't want a team to be picked to drive a certain agenda," Moroe said."The IRR has long argued that merit should be the primary basis of selecting sportsmen and women to represent South Africa at national level.
"Furthermore, even without any sort of racial target, based on their merits, close to half of the squad for the 2019 Cricket World Cup will likely be 'players of colour' in any event. The likes of Kagiso Rabada, Imran Tahir, and JP Duminy, among others, will be among the first names jotted down on any selector’s team sheet for a South African ODI XI."The IRR added that the majority of South African sports fans want merit-based selections.
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