Was Kallis Right in Playing IPL And resting in champions trophy.

[CG]

Selfish or sensible.

[JaFanatic]

selfish

[gattaca]

Lol @op. Think SA is preparing for 2015 cup with out him. Think it is decision by coach and management.

[coffee_rules]

Sensible. CTs don't bring any money to player nor the board. ICC gets the money. IPL is better gets more money to self and board.

[Trundler27]

If kallis had played; then the world would never have gotten to see killer miller. More surprising is the fact that the poms actually beat saf with only 1 south african player in their XI

[flamy]

Sensible. CTs don't bring any money to player nor the board. ICC gets the money. IPL is better gets more money to self and board.

:two_thumbs_up::two_thumbs_up:

[carnish]

How long will they keep relying on Kallis. Plus it wasn't like they won all their semis with kallis in the side. No point blaming aged players, they must let new guys come in and take responsibility.

[1983-2011]

sensible. He got paid $1,100,000 by KKR for playing IPL 6.

[Muloghonto]

Selfish or sensible.

Selfish and sensible, when it comes to money, are the same thing.

[FischerTal]

sensible. he's about to retire. needs to make as moolah as he can. Saffa retirement pension will be shyte

[Jersey #10]

Sensible! I think the Saffie cricket board makes more money when their players play IPL vs CT. Every international player is required to pay 10% of their IPL earnings to the board. and even for himself, he probably makes more in one season of IPL than he does playing for SA in 3-4 years at least. There is a reason why all these oldies keep playing the IPL. i.e., Mutiah, Kallis, Ponting, Dravid etc

[Old guy]

dont think he took that decision on his own.. maybe its team strategy now to just go with young players who will play next world cup.. i cant even remember last time kallis played a valuable odi inning..or for that matter the last match he played :P

[special K]

Made the right decision. He knew England were going to walk this trophy.

[rkt.india]

Kallis is out because of some personal reasons, might be family, not because he is resting.

[Debutant]

Absolutely right decision. Playing a much bigger and better tourney in place of a small one is always sensible. Getting paid 20 times more makes it even obvious.

[saneindian]

Sensible move. Perhaps didn't want another ICC Choke award added to his CV, not that it would have mattered

[tothepoint]

Creating this thread after the exit of South Africa is surely a "sensible" decision, or is it selfish? :giggle:

[CG]

dont think he took that decision on his own.. maybe its team strategy now to just go with young players who will play next world cup.. i cant even remember last time kallis played a valuable odi inning..or for that matter the last match he played :P

Why did they select kallis then,Also kallis has not retired from Int t20 also.If an indian player had done i can see all hell break lose.

[velu]

sachin too played in IPL and he didnt....... .. oh wait he retired

[Old guy]

Why did they select kallis then' date='Also kallis has not retired from Int t20 also.If an indian player had done i can see all hell break lose.[/quote'] i honestly dont know in detail about this..likeu said no hell broke there was no real coverage .. i did not even know he was selected first..still i think there can be other reasons. he does not seems to be type of cricketer who will do this .