“What actually happened was the (semi-final) team was the team that played against Sri Lanka. We’re not going into any politics, but it had a role to play,” Horn told Eyewitness News.
“I had to do a little bit of talk to the guys after the team was selected and a little bit of energy was taken away from the quarter-finals where the right team played. It is what it is, I take it as it is. It doesn’t matter how politics or the quota influenced the players,” he said.
“I think I failed a bit in my job as motivator or as high-performance coach in the way that I believed the Proteas could win the World Cup. My job was to basically say that: Listen guys now we have to give a little bit more than we gave before. We have to fill gaps and now we have to make the difference with less but give more, in a way.”
We now have to wait and watch how the South African Cricket board react to this since they had earlier denied the whole thing.
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