South African cricket doesn’t need Pat Symcox and his ilk involved in running the sport or commentating on it. Freedom of Speech you see, it’s nice, but it requires you to be responsible, and Symcox isn’t | By shockerhess BlackLivesMatter IOLSport
The condescending tone of their social media posts targeting Lungi Ngidi? The racism? The ‘whataboutism’? What the pair wrote, illustrates a special level of stupidity, and inability to ask: “Why?” Why did a 24 year old player, just starting his international career, feel so strongly about including his teammates in talking about why Black Lives Matter? Why are Dippenaar, who is 43 years old, and Symcox who is 60, unable to see what that movement stands for? Why don’t they educate themselves?...
That elicited the following response from the South African Women’s team’s captain, Dane van Niekerk: “There were some comments about us not having any responsibilities, we are home a lot - funny fact I was only home for a month last year. Everyone has their opinions, some support it some don’t. At the end of the day my job is to get women’s cricket where it deserves to be, if that takes time, hard work and some hard conversations then I am happy to have them.
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