Its not often that a Rolls-Royce passes through and almost no one turns to have a look. Looking at the muted response that met JP Pietersen’s recent retirement, it’s difficult not to feel that is what happened with a career that was much better than its numbers suggested.
Sharing a dressing room with men named Os du Randt, Beast Mtawarira, John Smit, Bakkies Botha, Victor Matfield, Juan Smith, Schalk Burger, Duane Vermeulen, Fourie du Preez, Frans Steyn, Jaque Fourie, Bryan Habana, among others, can dim a player’s star, but we forget that Pietersen was an absolute thoroughbred.
PIETERSEN WASN’T EXACTLY WHAT YOU’D CALL A BLUNT OBJECT. IN FACT,EVERYTHING ABOUT HIM WAS DECEPTIVE At some level the reaction by many is understandable because the announcement of the retirement took a while…
