Jacques Kallis "embarrassed" to call himself South African, fans not happy
Former Proteas all-rounder, Jacques Kallis has expressed his discontent at the official announcement that was made by the South African Sports Minister, Fikile Mbalula regarding the rainbow nation’s future bidding for a number of major international sporting events, including that of rugby and cricket.
Last Monday, Fikile Mbalula made an announcement which stated that Athletics South Africa (ASA), Cricket South Africa (CSA), Netball South Africa (NSA) and the South African Rugby Union (SARU) are suspended from bidding for, or hosting major international tournaments due to their failure of not meeting their transformation targets.
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The 40-year-old wasn’t happy with the South African Sports Minister’s announcement and decided to take the matter to Twitter. Here is what Jacques Kallis tweeted, earlier yesterday:
According to a number of reports, Cricket South Africa (CSA) is going to make an official enquiry to ascertain where the organisation has actually lagged while in its pursuit to fulfill the transformational target.
Sources claimed that only football has met the transformational target which aims to provide more opportunities to black players.
According to Cricket South Africa Communications Manager, Altaaf Kazi, “We (CSA) need to review the contents of the report and understand where Transformation Targets were not met before making any further comments.”
Jacques Kallis is a South African cricket legend
The South African cricket legend, Jacques Kallis made his Test debut against England, back in 1995. Since then, Kallis had gone on to represent his country in 166 Test matches and had not only scored 13,289 runs at a staggering average of 55.37, but has also picked up 262 Test wickets with his best bowling figure being 6 for 54.
Also known as ‘Kalahari’, Jacques Kallis had featured in 328 One-day international matches where he scored 11,579 runs for his national side at an impressive average of 44.39. The former Proteas all-rounder, also has 273 ODI wickets to his name.
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Although Jacques Kallis might be, arguably, the greatest ever servant of the sport that South Africa has ever produced, that couldn’t change the fact that his tweet didn’t quite go down well as far as his fans are concerned.
Here are a few replies that were tweeted to Kallis: