A plea for perspective
Peter May comments on the nominations for the annual ICC Awards and the outrage in South Africa over its players being ignored
Kanishkaa Balachandran
25-Feb-2013
Peter May comments on the nominations for the annual ICC Awards and the outrage in South Africa over its players being ignored. He writes that it would be in correct to say there's an Ashes bias in the nominations. Read on in cricket365.
To be fair to Majola, he went on to qualify his remarks in saying, 'I don't know what the criteria are for these nominations but I simply can't believe that this has happened to South African players.' Ignorance is always a short-cut to incredulity, Gerry.
The eligibility dates are 13th August 2008 to 24th August 2009. As such, the biggest omission from 'The Big Four' is not South African but Tillakaratne Dilshan, who had a good year in Tests and also was player of the tournament at the ICC World T20.
Kanishkaa Balachandran is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo