Dave I hear you but let's not split hairs on the issue. What we see in our representative sides is the finished product of a racist system. My view of the system is of one that has long and wide tentacles, it goes a lot deeper than the finished product.
To cut a long story short, take Rilee Rossouw as an example, there are others, perhaps even guys like Kevin Peterson or Adriaan Strauss. White guys who saw the writing on the wall and said cya later. The message from the ANC is loud and clear......we don't want you if you are white. So what incentive is there for any white kid to play when he feels rejected because of his pigmentation. We could get away with it in the past but we're paying the penalty for losing the last layer and the layer previous to that.
Digging deeper, what happened to the intellectual property which produced fine players over the decades? Just bye the bye.....since re-admission they haven't produced a single black batsman of world class standard.....plenty of bowlers as we know but zippo batsmen.
Another question ....who controls our coaching? Has it become a case of the blind leading the blind as we see in other areas of everyday South African modus operandi? Black people are encouraged to take over....and they do..... regardless of whether they are suitably qualified or competent enough.
Scroll foward to the playing field and we see gemors in our youngsters......the question is why the fall in standards? For a population boasting 50 million it's damn bloody sad that they're scratching for half decent players.
One other thing, there is intellectual property in Barry Richards and Clive Rice etc.....they've been swept to the side.....how dumb was that!