Ex-skipper Elgar 'stabbed in the back' by CSA

JOHANNESBURG, May 05 (AFP): Former Test captain Dean Elgar described a toxic environment of politics and poor administration in South African cricket and said he felt he had been "stabbed in the back" when he was summarily axed from the leadership role last year.
Elgar, 36, is now playing for English county Essex after retiring from international cricket.He said in a wide-ranging interview with the Rapport newspaper that he had held back from criticising his former employers before his contract with Cricket South Africa (CSA) expired at the end of April.
He said he was exposed to an unhealthy culture after he was appointed captain in March 2021.
"I became a part-time cricketer and full-time politician, something that I never want to go through again.
"I am a sportsman, not a politician or a cricket administrator, but I was thrown into a cauldron in which I had to be all three. If I had known that before, I would never have accepted the captaincy."