We surrendered our hotel to Aussies, laid out red carpet: Boucher

Rawalpindi, Feb 3 : South Africa coach Mark Boucher expressed disappointment after Australia postponed their tour of his country despite being welcomed with ‘a red carpet’.
“It’s certainly disappointing. The CSA (Cricket South Africa) have expressed their disappointment and it’s no different for the players,” said Boucher while speaking to the media.
“There’s probably a feeling that we were laying down the red carpet for Australia, which is frustrating at times,” he said. “It seems a lot of goalposts were being moved for that particular tour, for Australia.” Boucher said that the development was surprising despite the fact that the Proteas team had surrendered their preferred hotel to Tim Paine’s men.
“For example, the one positive that came out of the bubble against Sri Lanka (in December-January) was the hotel that we stayed at. We thought it was a great hotel for us as South Africans. It suits our needs and the cultural way that we are, being outdoors [kind]. And we even surrendered that to Australia.” Cricket Australia (CA) on Tuesday announced that it was postponing its tour of South Africa in wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.