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- Updated: August 18, 2016
Daryll Cullinan, the former South Africa batsman, has admitted to having contemplated migrating to New Zealand or Australia to play international cricket as a youngster growing up in apartheid South Africa. Speaking on the seventh episode of ESPNcricinfo Talking Cricket, to be aired on Friday on Sony ESPN, Cullinan said his ambition then was limited to playing county cricket because of scant exposure to the international game.
“In terms of where we were going – not knowing that we’d ever get back into international cricket – it was not something that you believed was going to happen,” Cullinan said. “That’s just our lot, and if you wanted to play international cricket, you would look elsewhere, England or New Zealand, Australia, which I seriously considered, and I had the opportunity to go to New Zealand and go to Australia.
“[The] primary goal was to do well at first-class cricket and it was more the ambition of playing county cricket because that could offer you a living, and growing up, I really enjoyed squash more, but my father said, ‘No, no, you won’t make a living out of playing squash, stick to your cricket.’ But we always had the intention to go on and study. So, cricket became the means to get to university. It was secondary in your life, but international cricket, no, …
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