Vince van der Bijl says an older generation of SA cricketers have failed in mapping a culture for the national team | Sport24news
Vince van der BijlSA's brightest current players have it in their hands to determine the cultural road ahead, says"Big Vince".
The culture, says Van der Bijl, must include a hard competitive edge but also"necessary soft skills".has branded Cricket South Africa's high-performance squad culture camp an"exciting opportunity" for the country's premier players to define the future environment they wish to operate in. Van der Bijl, an iconic figure in Natal, Transvaal and Middlesex teams of the 1970s and 80s, was among the first prominent white cricket figures to publicly get behind emerging strike bowler Lungi Ngidi’s clear-cut backing of Black Lives Matter.He stressed:"Their, and our, time for mapping the culture of the team is gone - we have all failed to do that, irrespective of our generation, background, religion or colour.
"This culture camp ... is the perfect place for you, 'young ones', to define the culture and environment that you passionately want to immerse yourselves in, in your SA cricket career.
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