I watched thje fiorst ten overs bowled and the average speed of the bowlers was as follows:-
Medium Fast Bowlers
Rabada - 135 kph
Ngidi - 132 kph
Medium, Pace Bowler\
Olivier - 126 kph
Other than Nortje we have no fast bowler left and the only one that can really bowl at 140+ kph is Jacobs. South Africa always was proud about is fast-bowling attack now is scraping the barrel. Jacobs in fact did take a wicket.- the other three have gone through the motion.
Rabada used to be a fast bowler - that is gone - he is nothing of the sort anymore. It is going to cost him in the IPL auction . He was paid $2,1 million by Delhi - his budget price now with his present pace is down to $600 000 and he would be lucky to get even that. The magic has gone out of his bowling.
So far 5 wickets taken:-
Jansen = 2
Olivier = 2
Rabada = 1
Olivier still bowl medium pacers with some bound to it. His fastest ball was 131 kph with the average at 128 kph. - however he is very accurate and difficult to play. Jansen is in fast bowling range.
What is happening with Olivier and Jansen has been reporterd back to the IPL clubs and they will consider high bids for both. .
201/9 Jansen has 4.
202 all out.
Markram out cheap...again!
Jansen is about 8 ks quicker and he gets more bounce. He is fast/medium maybe just fast. He is awkward enough that he might have a bit of a test career. Olivier looks bog ordinary.
I’d say India were in the stronger position, but for the injury to Siraj which could decide the test.
Did you forget that KG got in trouble for overdoing the celebrations a few seasons ago? The team needs a spark to put them on the right track again...but the political landscape makes it increasingly difficult for that to happen.
Dave
There is a pro0blem in the whole set-up - the players are totally demoralized - same as the Springboks became under Meyer and Coetzee. They are going through the motions and you cans see it from, their attitude and approach to the game. .
Look for instance at Elgar - ii runs after facing 75 balls. He is just standing there trying to block balls and not very successful in that either. That is less than 1 run in every 6 balls faced by him. That is not leadership at all - it is a losing strategy in a winnable game.
101/3 with both Peterson (62) and Elgar (28) gone this morning. I like the look of Peteron, but he's yet to perform...pity he didn't get to convert his first 50.
Rassie gone for one...102/4
Petersen was fiddling around - but did make runs and his average would now reach about 25. in test match cricket. He is not a test batsman's arse or perhaps he is.
Elgar was horribly ineffective - he made 28 runs casing 125 balls and could ahve been out a number of times - what he did is not batting required in cricket.
And Rassie had another shocker out for 1 run again - he really could have been out e arlier for a duck -but survived by a miracle.
The team is still at least 3 batsmen short. When play restart Bavuma on nil runs and Verreynne will be batting. My bet is the team will NOT make 150 runs. /
Elgar and Rassie are there for their experience. They'll be gone as soon as the youngsters settle, but the young bats can't step up because the experienced guys don't provide a settled environment...then you go all in and pick your best young bats and let the chips fall...foolish to persist with experience not delivering.
153/4...51 partnership...
Verreynne and Bavuma gone after a 60 run partnership - 177/6....still 25 runs short...
191/7
What about his identical twin brother Duan whom Donald believe is even better than Marco. Want to find out where he is at present.
Par for the course I guess.
If you select failures and expect success then this is your team.
Not impressed with the players except for Jansen.
Well never fear the selectors will no doubt find some more Brillant cricketers in their ANC pick list.
After all these years it is disgusting to think that color is still an issue in RSA.
Shame.
The Indian seamer, said to remind the commentators of Eddie Barlow, was 5ks faster than Olivier.
That still makes him a medium pace owler.
One would have thought that Nortje will put some real pace into the ODI side - but he i s absent from that series as well. So back another toothless attack in that case too. Pity Jansen has no back-up fast bowler.
I reckon we will lose this test and literally gift India their first ever series win on SA soil
What a fucking joke
Hey Plum
All the best to you my good man..... let's hope that 2022 is a awesome year for everyone and their families.
Loma crushed him, as most expected...... I really want to see the Loma vs Teo rematch, with a fully fit Loma.........should be very a different outcome.
With us batt ing last on this wicket, anything over 200 should be defendable by India.... I really hope I am wrong, but I just don't see SA chasing anything over 200.... this wicket is gradually getting worse, but if one or two batsman can really set themselves in, and mentally push through.... it can be done... I just doubt it
Ja, our bowling is super shit, not to mention our batting too. Probably worst our batting has ever been. We did struggle when we came out of isolation for many years to built a decent batting line up. Darryl Cullinan, Rhodes, Macmillan, Andrew Hudson, Kepler Wessels and Dave Richardson, but none of them other than Cullinan were decent batsmen. Although, Kepler played for Australia which speaks volumes of his quality.
But this lots takes the cake. Bavuma is poor, for him to look good is next level. What happened to our batsmen that were averaging 50. Right now none of this lot is even above 40.
I haven't seen a single batsmen post a couple of hundreds or even gotten into double centuries.
Faf was an okay player, not great but he could grind out a win. Now we have not batsmen that can wear the bowlers down.
Everyone is more interested in their IPL contracts and just want to get the test matches done.
De Kock is a waste of talent and probably better that he is not in the squad.
We need Kirsten back as a coach, serious shake up at cricket SA is required and enough of this political chair where you have to have 8 selectors for a team.
Let the coach pick the team, end of
Korn
Love it! Our debutant getting in the batter's faces. Lad is ticking boxes for me! He squared up to Bumrah...and is now glaring at him after every ball. Shades of Donald's post-ball look.
I disagree about the bowling being bad. It's been low energy mostly but has turned out match-winning numbers 4 out of 4 times thus far in the series.
DA - I doubt Teo was gonna give Loma a rematch. And with the division being stacked...an injury free Loma should see some other huge fights over the next 2-3 years. Just sucks that he has to move up to lightweight to get good fights.