NEIL MANTHORP

Prized asset: but AB de Villiers has now retired from the international game
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South Africans have been flooding the English playing market for 15 years since the Kolpak ruling but their desire to make a career in county – or even club cricket – may never have been as strong as it is at the moment, and it’s not just the fear of Brexit removing their chances.
The continually depreciating value of the rand still plays its part but there is also a pervasive gloom and confusion about the future of the game in South Africa which does not,...