http://rsa.cricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1998-99/RSA_LOCAL/BOWL/KZN-B_WPR-B_BOWL_28FEB1999.html

http://rsa.cricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1998-99/RSA_LOCAL/BOWL/KZN-B_WPR-B_BOWL_25-27FEB1999.html

http://rsa.cricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1998-99/RSA_LOCAL/BOWL/KZN-B_NTHNS-B_BOWL_19-21FEB1999.html

http://rsa.cricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1998-99/RSA_LOCAL/BOWL/NWEST_KZN-B_BOWL_12-14FEB1999.html

http://rsa.cricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1998-99/RSA_LOCAL/BOWL/GRIQ-W-B_KZN-B_BOWL_20-22NOV1998.html

There’s a certain P Harris in the first link, who seemed to be able to navigate his way into the SA Team from a similar position.

Ryan the semi final was against the WARATAHS, not the Blues you Doos!!!

Does anyone actually have or can they pull some stats of KP when he played for Natal B?

Well said, absolutely spot on.

I watched him being interviewed prob 12-15 months ago and never did he have anything derogatory to say about SA. He did mention the quota system and felt that he would never make the national side. That was first and foremost his ambition.

Listening to the commentators during the second test Pollock was asked the exact same question as to how SA could lose a player of his class. The commentators mentioned that the player who kept him out of the Natal side was running around playing 2nd division cricket in England.

Rod Marsh who had something to do with KP at their development academy in England said he had the best eye hand co-ordination he had seen in a cricket player, saying his coordination was better than Ponting!!!

Some praise indeed.

Batting is the most technical aspect of cricket. You do not progress from a lower order batsman in a provincial B side to a world class one in a few years. I have been involved in Northerns age group cricket since 1998 through my son and know Anton Ferreira ( Yogi ) who heads the cricket academy. What is quite apparent in the rep teams is that when it came to batsmen that 85% of the batsmen that started of at u9 and u11 level are still there at u19 level. Bowlers are quite different and from the bowlers that started at u11 only one represented Northerns at u19 level. I often discussed this with coaches and with Yogi and they all are of the opinion that because of the technical nature of batting you are either a batsmen from an early age or you are not.

It is BS that KP was not good enough to make the Natal A side and progress from there to the Proteas. There must have been other factors that lead to him being overlooked and both are appalling – the Natal coach is/was incompetent in not being able to identify a potential international batsmen or the quota system is to blame. KP obviously felt the latter was the case and left for England. To expect him to hang around in the B side in the faint hope of one day maybe making it into the proteas as Rugbygal and others suggest is naive and to crucify him because he stated the reason why he left is political correctness gone mad. Every young cricketer dream of playing for his country one day and only a few realize that dream. To criticize a prodigious talent for leaving the country because that dream has been crushed for political reasons and not expect him to state the reason for his leaving is naive. What should he have said? I really love my country and would have loved to play for the proteas but I see this as an opportunity to broaden my experience and experience new cultures. Pleaaase lets stop pussyfooting around the real issues

Man, you are truely a dumb ***. When did I say the KP was never good enough to play for SA? Please quote me or are you still learning to read?

What I was saying to Black Panther before you and your IQ of 40 decided to jump on board and make a retarded comment on something you thought I said, was so what if he has an average of 50 we have 2 batsmen with greater averages.

KP was predominantly an off-spinner and lower order batsman when he was still in SA. He was only good enough to make Natal B side. He says quotas stopped him progressing which might be a point but maybe was he just not good enough at the time. It was only when he moved to England that his batting greatly improved.

Would I have KP in the national side? Most likely yes however if we choosing players I would rather have Ponting or Hussey.

Now sit down before you hurt yourself.

So good luck with Saracens Brad, show them what a high callibre player and person you are and maybe we will see you back in a Sharks jersey in a few years time. Us Sharkies are definitely going to miss your skills on the field.