Did ICL money decide Hall future?
All-rounder Andrew Hall’s decision to quit and turn his back on an international career does not come as a surprise. Not to those who know the developing story affecting South African players. Whether he joins the renegade Indian Cricket League is a conundrum that he will answer in time. Also, although it may appear that way, it has nothing to do with his non-selection for the first T20 Cup event about to be staged in South Africa. It goes far deeper than Hall’s decision to possibly join Lance Klusener and Nicky Boje who have already agreed to sign on for the pirate Indian venture. For someone like Hall, who has had the revolver of an attempted robbery gone wrong pushed in his face and bears the bullet scar of another brush with gun-happy thugs who roam the streets of South Africa and openly flaunt their urban terrorist acts at law enforcement efforts, his decision is in part based on his value to the game in a free market system that in increasingly marginalising any number of South A
