Howcome Dravid had never been accused of being Selfish?

[Richard]

It's not nonsense at all - virtually everyone went-on in 2001\02 about how Australia, effectively, had won 5-1 - not 3-0 and 2-1.
After the opening day of the series it seems unlikely that South Africa won't go 3-0 down anyhow.

 

[Richard]

True the start South Africa got too in that game was very poor, lost 2/3 wkts with literally nothing on the board. But Kallis did major injustice at the dearth, particularly the slog overs, where Boucher and Pollock were (as usual) opening up, Kallis couldn't either up the tempo or rotate the strike properly resulting in South Africa being 20/30 runs short of the target they might have gotten. Worse than that was Kallis wasn't even looking to do either of the things. He played the same sort of innings in the first ODI of the super series against Aus, he scored 4/8 off 26 balls, it was a pretty skewed stat, more than the stat the lack of effort on Kallis' part to push the tempo up was what was appallaing. This from a man who was touted as the next best allrounder in the late 90s and in the 1999 WC was doing the same things pretty well.

I agree with your statement and I don't think Kallis is selfish its just that I think he doesn't believe he can up the tempo anymore, Kallis has lost confidence than the skill at doing this.

It's interesting, certainly a possibility.
If so - what can be done to get it back for him?

 

[kvemuri]

It's interesting, certainly a possibility.
If so - what can be done to get it back for him?

Thats an interesting question. Seriously speaking I don't know what can be done except maybe drop him from the ODI team temporarily (like it happened to Dravid in 98/99) so that he can regain his confidence or drop him altogether from the ODI side, making an example out of him to the other players and up and coming players. I know its a harsh statement to make, but I seriously don't know what can be done, its up to Kallis himself.

 

[Richard]

Dropping him would be all well and good, but odds-and-sod's law it'd probably be a game where a Kallis innings could so easily have turned it and it'd be "why on Earth was there no Kallis?"
In any case, I just can't see it happening.