Mozart
You made the following statement:-
You need a balance of mature guys and talented younger players.....but if anything, favour experience.
Dropping Faf is an absurd idea. Based on what? Markham is questionable and now we make him captain?And we move de Ok to 4, when is so obviously more comfortable lower down the order. Lucky not to be caught early off Root, he was dismissed because he got tentative near his century, and because the ball moved. Keep him at 6....it's the right slot. Movement is his nemesis.For the rest Hamza looks elegant and Pretorius a nice bat at 7.We need openers."
I pointed out real facts to you about the "experienced players" and your past lunacies about De Kock and your continued attacks on him. I asked some real facts about the so-called "experienced players", When it became clear that a player like Amla started going down in performance you denied that it was happening, Instead of accepting the inevitable you tried to produce evidence to the contrary, Amla himself evidently realized that he was letting the team down and announced his retirement from all forms of international cricket - but you totally refuse to see it and even the past week was beating the Amla drum again..
Now you come up with the "experience" story again and in the very next story about "we need openers", One of the openers is Elgar and is one of the only two experienced batsmen available in the team at present - since you do not rate De Kock at all and never did so in the past, So keep Elgar despite your own contradictory statement in the same thread? So lets accept Elgar is to be replaced - that leaves only Du Plessis and he is a player showing extremely poor form in the India tests earlier this year and only talk about remaining in cricket until 2021 and showing serious decline already,
Mozart it really is clear - you make postings on site without any clear and factual evaluation on what is happening and then expect from other members to accept your drivel. When I pointed out what you wrote in the past about De Kock - you would not respond. It is needless to point out that one of the test centuries of De Kock was made when he opened the batting but according to you that just did not happen, Don't you realize that De Kock scored at a massive rate for tests - while Pretorius was around hitting Curran for 14 runs in one over - but slowed down making runs when the next batsman was producing near to zero runs,, Was that not the reason for the decline in De Kock's productivity? Again another case of a BS posting by you, .
I said clearly what I think about Van der Dussen starting a test playing career at 30 - so what have that to do with what is happening? Your issues always relate to the age factor of sportsmen - the older the better denying that performance should be taking into account as a factor, Why not bring in Verreine who tormented the English bowlers in the "A" game last week instead of Van der Dussen? That type of thing is why your selection support is so crazy.