It is 2:40am and I am up watching the cricket on tele. One thing I'd really like to know, is why Mark Nicholas has become so pro Aussie and so critical of South Africa? I played against him in the early 90's in Cape Town and must say, he was a brilliant cricketer and I used to find his commentaries rather good a few years ago, but since this series has started, well, the Aussies must have paid him a hell of a lot of money to boast how great they are! Anyhow, at 99/0, good luck SA......and I just hope we drill the Aussies 3-0.

The Aussies are grumpy! Come on fellas, its time to rub it it! Ponting was too proud (or stuck up) to say that we out played them! Let us bite the bullet once more and hammer the series home in the Boxing Day test. More application is needed by our skipper and the bowling department in knocking over the Aussie tail. Come now fellas, this is the best opportunity in a lifetime! It is all about basics! Line and length.....and bowling from stump to stump! Good luck guys!

Well said Shifter! What this other idiot knows about cricket, seems dangerous! Especially one that has not played international cricket...he should rather shut his trap!

Its about time someone took a stance against Zimbabwe! It should be South Africa's turn soon, as we are not picking our sports representatives in a democratic and fair way! NOT SO? Think about this gentlemen!!!

"There is an agreement among the various franchises not to select these players," he told Die Burger. "One cannot force a team to select anyone. Therefore, these players will not be selected until one of the franchises breaks the agreement." So South African!!!! Any excuse to hammer the poor white boys again, is it? Is this another chance to keep them out of the local teams now. This is outrageous! Why can they not play in the ICL if the rest of the top players can go to the IPL? It is disgusting the way South Africans are treating South Africans! The whole of the cricket administration needs replacing! Shocking! The lot of you! Stopping a man from earning his living!

COSATU!! Communists!! The country is already dictated to by a bunch of idiots, along with Norman Arendse....and now these idiots! It is even worthless discussing the issue, as these fools do not address the real issues in South Africa, ie CRIME and UNEMPLOYMENT! So, once you have all sorted out the real issues, then you can attempt to poke your noses into SPORT! I thought South Africa was to be run under DEMOCRATIC principles? Or are these like Robert Mugabe's democratic principles? This garbage is unbelievable! If this is what it is all about, then the cricketers that have a bit of class, whether white or non-white, should rather just go ply their trade elsewhere. This is a professional sport!

Well said Omar Henry!!! Here is an ex player who, from the so called coloured community, could play cricket! None of the other former convenors have any realistic stats at the highest levels in cricket. They are, as I have mentioned before, all on the gravy train! Let real ex cricketers run this 'PROFESSIONAL' sport. They have done it before and it has worked...from playing days to administratively. These other fools need to get the chips off their shoulders and get rid of the apartheid inferiority complexes that they still carry! Come now guys....do you not want SA to be at the top! Lets stop making these racial desicions and concentrate on the quality of players we are producing! If the player is the BEST, then he should make the side...not the damn colour of his skin. Is the colour the only tool you have to use, or is it just that the systems you have put into place, at grass roots level not producing any quality!

Dear Panel or whoever can help, Firstly, what is CSA's TRANSFORMATION POLICY? Secondaly, why is it that we have this policy, when South Africa had its first free and fair election 14 years ago...what has been happening to bring the non white players through to a better standard of cricket? Thirdly, why is it that if we live in a multi cultural society, with so called equality (government policy), that we are still having reverse apartheid, which is denying certain sectors from making their living, for a 'policy' that denies democratic fairness? If you go anywhere in the world, people, players, professionals are employed because they are the BEST. Not because of some alterior, racist, manouvred reason. Please someone, put me in the picture.

Here is a fairly good choice to choose from for a Best Every SA Side: BATSMEN: 1. Gary Kirsten 2. Barry Richards 3. Kepler Wessels 4. Jimmy Cook 5. Henry Fotheringham 6. Herschelle Gibbs 7. Peter Kirsten 8. Kenny McEwan 9. Bruce Mitchell 10. Graeme Pollock ALL ROUNDERS: 1. Adrian Kuiper 2. Brian McMillan 3.Jacques Kallis 4. Clive Rice 5. Sean Pollock 6. Mike Procter 7. Eddie Barlow SPIN BOWLERS: 1. Alan Kourie 2. Denys Hobson SEAM BOWLERS: 1. Allan Donald 2. Garth Le Roux 3. Stephen Jefferies 4. Fanie De Villiers 5. Rupert Hanley 6. Hugh Tayfield WICKET KEEPERS: 1. Dave Richardson 2. Mark Boucher

Why is it that the international sports community and controlling bodies continue to allow SA to play in competitions with all of the political interference in sport in this country. It wasn¿t acceptable in the old days. Robin Petersen gets 5 wickets and a big thing is made about him now making the Indian tour, but Andre Nel gets 4 poles and he is dropped from the tour. As long as these thieving criminals who are trying to ruin all sport that white South Africans excel in, stay in control of the game, we will have this sort of nonsense.This is professional sport, a mans job, his living...and they are stopping him from doing it.What a shame! Whatever happened to the Freedom Charter? Or does that only purtain to one side of the population in SA.

Once again, colour, colour, colour!!! The ANC run CSA are once again playing reverse APARTHEID! I wonder if the rest of the world will put a ban on SA sports due to this racist approach, like they did when the country was under the previous regime! The ICC need to stand up and be counted now!

Norman Arendse needs to do what he has done to be in this position...ass lick! What he knows about cricket is a joke! I wish CSa would appoint someone from the sport who loves the sport, to run the sport....not a half wit who is only out there to make a name for himself. Its about time CSa did the groundwork at grassroots level...then we wouldnt be in the situation that we are in when it comes to selection. Guys like Hershelle, Makaya, Prince and co of the non white community...they must be appalled by what they see. These are guys who are world class and have the bbasics and aptitude for the sport., Its time CSA started thinking along sport lines and broke away from this political mumbo jumbo we call a government...look what they have done to the power supply of SA.Just think how well they will do with the cricket! Bring back real ex cricketers of all colours, to fill positions..not dimwits like Arendse!