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Lot of players could skip international duty and leagues due to increasing stress levels, reckons Allan Donald | Cricket News

Lot of players could skip international duty and leagues due to increasing stress levels, reckons Allan Donald | Cricket News

Former South Africa bowler Allan Donald said that it won’t be surprising if players decide to skip leagues as well as international assignments due to the strain caused by a packed schedule, something that only looks to increase in the future. “The injuries, unfortunately to a guy who is a box-office bowler, Anrich Nortje, and a couple of others, is not ideal. It is what the rest of the world wants to see, a guy bowling at 155 clicks and and making things happen,” Donald said during an interaction organised by SA20. Nortje is among the names such Lungi Ngidi, Gerald Coetzee, Nandre Burger and Lizaad Williams who have been ruled out of the important 2-Test series against Pakistan with the Proteas’ place in the World Test Championship final at stake. “It is, unfortunately, the brutality of the world game and where it is. What these guys are going through now (with) all the leagues, I’m not surprised that a lot of the guys will miss a league here, a tournament there and maybe even …