On September 20, Bhogle wrote a column for www.starsports.com in which he said: “South Africa, for example, can ask themselves why they got into a situation where their cricket economy was so dependent on an external power that is always more likely to do what suits itself first. It is just likely that one of the conclusions will be that it was the easy, lazy option to take.

Harsha Bhogle and Gideon Haigh