Fanie de Villiers slams selectors by CricketArchive Staff Reporter

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Player:	PS de Villiers
Event:	England in South Africa 2009/10

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DateLine: 4th January 2010

 

Former pacer Fanie de Villiers has come down hard on the South African selectors for including "half-fit" bowlers in the national side that suffered defeat to England in the second Test in Durban earlier this week.

 

"It was a big mistake," de Villiers told a leading South African daily. He called for those responsible for including "half-fit" Dale Steyn and Jacques Kallis in the match to be hauled up.

 

"I don't know if it was the head of the selectors who took this decision or the senior players (captain) Graeme Smith, Mark Boucher and Kallis. I half get the idea that this group, together with the coach Mickey Arthur are in any event the guys taking the decisions," he said.

 

De Villiers also criticised the inclusion of Makhaya Ntini as concerns increased among commentators that he was becoming just a political pawn in the national squad because he was the first black paceman to make it to the team.

 

"Friedel de Wet should have played, because he at least swings the ball and has the pace to give the English batsmen something to think about," De Villiers said.