Insular Australia avoid local adventures
While the South Africans have spent their spare time in Zimbabwe interacting with the locals and immersing themselves in culture, the Australia players have been more withdrawn and preferred to stay in their hotel rooms, writes Neil Manthorp for Business
02-Sep-2014
While the South Africans have spent their spare time in Zimbabwe interacting with the locals and immersing themselves in culture, the Australia players have been more withdrawn and preferred to stay in their hotel rooms, writes Neil Manthorp for Business Day Live.
The two touring teams have different attitudes to the job and both the "embrace" and "quarantine" approach to difficult or awkward situations can be successful, provided they are carried out with an appropriate recognition of reality. If everybody in the best hotel in town is making do with slow Wi-Fi and non-award-winning bolognaise, and if everyone is making do with a single towel because, for once, there is 100% occupancy, then what's the point in complaining?