adminCAPE TOWN. — He is not a racist, but merely realistic about the current state of South African cricket, former Proteas batsman Daryll Cullinan says.
Cullinan has copped heavy criticism in the last week after an interview he did with cricket specialist website, ESPNcricinfo. In the interview Cullinan talks about a variety of topics, from quotas to the Hansie Cronje match-fixing saga.
Cullinan also takes a dig at Cricket South Africa, who he believes is hastily trying to improve its transformation targets after neglecting the issue for years.
Cullinan was especially criticised for his comment that cricket was “inherently not a black man’s game” due to the popularity of soccer among the larger proportion of the country’s youth.
In an interview with Netwerk24, Cullinan defended himself, saying people should go and listen to the whole interview.
“It was a video interview and the text underneath (on the website) only summed up the interview. If people had watched and listened to the whole interview, they would have better understood the context of what I was saying.” — Sport24.
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