Boucher on Trial for supporting Kallis
By Cricket ~ August 21st, 2007. Filed under: South Africa, Twenty20, cricket.
The buzz about excluding Jacques Kallis from South Africa’s Twenty20 World Championship team took a new turn on Wednesday as soon as the wicketkeeper Mark Boucher was called in front of a disciplinary trial subsequent to criticizing the judgment in a daily editorial.
South Africa cricket board held in a statement that Mark would be present for the hearing on Friday to respond five counts of committing a breach to the board’s rules and code of conduct, that refrains players from any kind of unfavorable conduct, passing comments damaging the game, or to a scrupulous tournament or competition, and condemnation on the choice of a team.
Jacques Kallis resigned from the South African vice captaincy after the rebuke, and Boucher was quoted by the Business Day newspaper as suggestive of there being hidden purposes for his exclusion
Boucher went on praising Kallis and addressing him as the unsurpassed all-rounder and the savior of many games than anyone else on the South African side.
Boucher also dispensed disparagement on the latest accusations on the subject of extreme consumption of alcohol in the South African cricket camp and the survival of a senior players’ group.