Dutchy wrote:RB wrote:Dutchy wrote:however he was clearly prevented from exercising his personal choice.
Was he? Seems to me that he did exercise his personal choice (that is, to sit out rather than take the knee).
Is taking a knee now an official part of being a cricketer and the World Cup process? Like the national anthems?
In the South African team, it apparently is. To be clear, I wouldn't necessarily be supportive of the Australian team introducing such a mandate. And perhaps if I were South African, I wouldn't favour the South Africans all having to do it.
The way I see it, de Kock was given a choice - take the knee if you want to play, or if you don't want to play, please yourself. He decided for personal reasons not to play. That's his choice. Presumably, he exercised his personal choice by not kneeing during the anthem (wherever he was).
I could say that it's my choice to open the batting against the Poms this summer. By not picking me, does that mean that ACB are preventing me from exercising my choice?
Dutchy wrote:Australian & NZ chose to not to take a knee in their recent ODI series, where is the outrage for that?
No outrage here. As I said, I don't have strong views either way on the knee gesture. Perhaps your argument is actually that you don't think mandating it is a good idea - in which case I'd understand your point of view. But I'm not convinced that having to abide by certain team policies to get picked denies you freedom of choice.