South African cricket team is coming to India for a championship tour to play three T20Is and three Tests. Cricket South Africa (CSA) recently announced the Proteas squad for the tour and kept Dale Steyn and Faf du Plessis out from the list. While Dale has recently announced his retirement from Test cricket due to some injuries, he was available for the T20I still the selectors did not pick him.
Quinton de Kock was made the captain of the team. Taking a dig at the selectors Dale posted some tweets on his social media handle and apologised to Indian skipper Virat Kohli.
After the CSA’s squad announcement, Dale revealed that he was available for the coming tour. To which SA’s executive coach Neil Manthorp replied that selectors are saving him for the big game.
Here is the tweet thread:
Interesting 'footnote' at the end of CSA's squad announcement for T20Is and Tests vs India… "Chris Morris did not make himself available for selection."
— Neil Manthorp (@NeilManthorp) August 13, 2019
I did… Obviously lost my number in the reshuffling of coaching staff.
— Dale Steyn (@DaleSteyn62) August 13, 2019
The new selectors are obviously saving you for the 'big' games. (Who are the new selectors?) https://t.co/NlNGCjHcAO
— Neil Manthorp (@NeilManthorp) August 13, 2019
Apologies to Virat and a billion people for thinking they not
— Dale Steyn (@DaleSteyn62) August 13, 2019
After the unforeseen apologies, Twitter was wondering why Dale said sorry to Virat. Everyone was confused over Dale’s tweet.
What does that even mean?
— Suman Chatterjee (@ParadiseKings) August 13, 2019
Can anyone make me understand plz What actually he's trying to say?
— Kamal Singh Bisht (@Ksbtweeets) August 13, 2019
Dale prior tweets decode his apology note. He said sorry to Virat and a billion people (Indian fans) as the CSA don’t think that T20I is not a big game.