NEIL MANTHORP

There is a big difference between not making a decision and making a bad one, or the wrong one. Some may say the difference is irrelevant if the result is always the same but learning to think and reaching a conclusion is infinitely preferable to not using the brain at all.
The problem for South Africa over the last 20 years of ICC events is that there has been a mixture of both – and more besides.
In 1996 national coach Bob Woolmer admitted to making the “worst decision of my career” when he persuaded the selection panel to omit Allan Donald in favour of ...