JOHANNESBURG – South African team management has come up with the old and unique way of banning the players wives and girl friends in order to retain the players performance for the ICC Champions Trophy.
Team management have banned player’s wives and girlfriends from the national team for the duration of the Champions Trophy in the UK next month in a bid to have the squad fully focused on the event.
The South Africans are in Group B with Sri Lanka‚ whom they meet in their opening match of the campaign at Kennington Oval on June 3 in London‚ and other Asian powerhouses Pakistan and India in their bid to win the tournament.
“I think it is a good move not to have family members during the tournament‚ it is a short tournament of only five games in total if you go to the final.
“It’s going to be all focus on preparations and the team‚” said captain AB de Villiers.
De Villiers said the wives and partners‚ otherwise known as the wags‚ of the players will be with them on tour for the first two weeks during the three-match series against England before the Champions Trophy and they will return home to allow them to focus on the tournament.