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Shaun Tait quits cricket
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Noble One
International Vice-Captain
An understandable decision to make. When you face four to six months in rehabilitation every single year since your late teens you can understand why Tait would wish to reduce his workload and excel in the format he has most success with and can make good money from.
Was he ever likely to play in the next World Cup at 32? I don’t think so. Was he a bowler who the younger players could learn from? No, he is not the personality type. A wise decision to move on to the final stage of his career.
Was he ever likely to play in the next World Cup at 32? I don’t think so. Was he a bowler who the younger players could learn from? No, he is not the personality type. A wise decision to move on to the final stage of his career.
Bun
Banned
indeed. was hilarious when he was sledging the indian batters after bleeding runs. sreesanthesque.
Noble One
International Vice-Captain
I believe he will struggle to make 30. He is spending more and more time each season out with injury, I was surprised he made it through the England ODI series and the World Cup. Never looked 100% after picking up that thigh strain midway through the England ODI’s.
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Soft? Hardly. The sorts of injuries he's had have retired quicks from all forms of the game historically and, let's face it, with an action like that his injury record isn't about to get any better. The guy used to be able to bowl big overs, just need to look at his record in FC cricket for SA and how he routinely bowled as many overs a super-fit workhorse like Gillespie, often more than the spinners. When fit, Tait has a huge engine. He just hasn't been fully fit for years and has, clearly, had enough of waking up barely able to walk let alone bowl 150+.
The bloke is not soft.
The bloke is not soft.
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Nah, the guy is soft because he's made himself unavailable for formats where he was rarely available because of injuries
TT Boy
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Called this last week on here.
Also said South Africa would choke and England would get humbled too.
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Simple game from your seat, ain't it? Just change your action Tait. 
Slight changes (the only ones that are possible anyway), from what I've heard, have been explored and discounted because whether he bowls half-rat or balls out, he's going to hurt. Basically, there are no changes he could make to his bowling action which would do anything other than prolong the inevitable and even then, not by much. At least this way, he stays on the park.
EDIT: To be fair, it's still not a popular decision around SACA that Tait made when he quit playing FC cricket (Manou wasn't a fan). Rough game this cricket thing, eh?
Slight changes (the only ones that are possible anyway), from what I've heard, have been explored and discounted because whether he bowls half-rat or balls out, he's going to hurt. Basically, there are no changes he could make to his bowling action which would do anything other than prolong the inevitable and even then, not by much. At least this way, he stays on the park.
EDIT: To be fair, it's still not a popular decision around SACA that Tait made when he quit playing FC cricket (Manou wasn't a fan). Rough game this cricket thing, eh?
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pup11
International Coach
All the people who are calling him soft and a bloke with no desire really couldn't be serious, I mean he is just being honest here to himself and to his team and that's a great thing to see.
Tait's body can't take the workload that comes along with playing the long formats of the game and rather than clinging onto his ODI spot he has made way for someone else to come in and take over.
Tait's body can't take the workload that comes along with playing the long formats of the game and rather than clinging onto his ODI spot he has made way for someone else to come in and take over.
BoyBrumby
Englishman
I wouldn't say born with, but generally bowlers settle into the action that comes naturally to them, no matter how ******** it might be in terms of wear-and-tear on the body.
Flintoff had literally half a dozen ops on the same ankle that he smacked down and sent several times the force of his own (not inconsiderable) body weight through with each delivery stride, but when it was suggested he change it his response was pretty much "I've been bowling like this since forever; I'm too old to change now."
Even when bowlers do try to change their actions, like Anderson did at Cooley's behest, it can have negative consequences. In Jimmy's case he lost his outswinger and only got it back when he reverted to his old "head facing the floor on release" MO.
Just on Dizzy: didn't he have terrible issues with stress fractures early on in his career too? Might be my memory.
Jono
Virat Kohli (c)
Tait is 28.
He "quit" cricket 3 years ago, i.e. when he was 25.
It wasn't too late then IMO, let alone earlier when injuries started to become an issue for him. You're looking at 22-24 years of age.
The desire hasn't been there to do the hard yards consistently IMO.
Fair play he wants to play T20 cricket. And if you want to dispute him being soft, fine. But he's not someone I'd want in my international cricket team, that's for sure.
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