Under pressure the United Cricket Board's (UCB) decided on Sunday to scrap its racial quota system for provincial and national teams involving a mandatory four black players. But in a dramatic U-turn South Africa have announced a commitment to a minimum of five black players in their squad for the World Cup.
MÃ¼nchausen syndrome is a psychiatric factitious disorder wherein those affected feign disease, illness, or psychological trauma to draw attention, sympathy, or reassurance to themselves.
Some studies retain the eponym Munchausen syndrome to refer to severe, chronic, and dramatic cases marked by habitual lying, peregrination, and use of aliases; these patients are usually male and constitute a small minority of patients with factitious disorder [ 3,4 ].