Kagiso Rabada admits he didn’t enjoy playing for the Proteas during three years of off-field turmoil in South African cricket.
“Personally, I did my best but it was incredibly tense and I didn’t enjoy it,” the fast bowler told the Sunday Times.
“There was turmoil in the last three years off the field,” said Rabada, referring to adminstrative controversies and the upheaval caused by the Social Justice and Nation Building hearings.
“You just didn’t have that enjoyment and that can completely break a team. When a team is not unified you can’t ever enjoy the game.”
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However, Rabada said “I get the sense that has changed” in recent months, following the appointment of Enoch Nkwe as CSA director of cricket, and Shukri Conrad and Rob Walter as Proteas Test and limited-overs head coaches respectively.
“Having the right people who will manage all the unique intricacies that SA has to face, if you have the right people to manage that, that is the key,” he said. “If there are people who can’t manage it, then we are going to fall by the wayside.
“There’s been an umbrella-like feel to the information that has been passed down. The main word is positive. It’s fresh and exciting, it allows for exuberance and it’s been working.”
