how the rookies shape up to their first taste of Test cricket.
My team in order.....
1) Toni de Zorzi
2) Keegan Peterson
3) Temba Bavuma
4) Aiden Markram
5) Ryan Rickleton
6) Klaasen
7) Marco Jansen
8) Keshev Maharaj
9) Kagiso Rabada
10) Gerald Coetzee
11) Anrich Nortje
Plum, I'll say this very slowly........I don't care about your cricket thoughts and opinions, I regret wasting my time arguing with you.....much as I welcome cricket debate and opinion I think of yours as irrelevant and insignificant.
Consider my post a favour.
You're now struggling or should I say scraping to ridicule me which just goes to demonstrate a somewhat bruised ego.
But tell me this....in what position would you place Bavuma?
And again......consider my response a favour.
Bavuma should not play test cricket.
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I think Peterson was unlucky yesterday...there was something on the Snicko... a whisper, but there.
And Bavuma goes for a pair...Karma is a bitch...I actually liked him a few years ago...he reminded me of Peter Kirsten, but he just couldn't step up...software problem.
How can the skipper add a pair of ducks to his average in test cricket.
He is an not worth a place in the team or being made the Skipper.
Unfortunately politics in all walks of life in RSA is the reason.
Never has worked in RSA but the same road is continuing to lead to the shambles.
Sad when you see the TV coverage of the crowds enjoying the SA T20 games and the pride they take in their teams and now we are back in this ANC camp.
Well with his connections in the political world who else was considered.
But sadly he has really turned into a joke.
A bad one.
"He know’s he doesn’t deserve the skipper’s job but he said yes anyway."
That's the problem with BEE...these guys are convinced by the PTB that it's their duty to be a symbol of hope for their country...I don't blame them, I pity them...the preasure on them is immense...same with Kolisi...atleast for him a case can be made that he's there on merit....sort of...
Yep I am not blaming him for accepting the captaincy but his form does not merit a spot in the playing team at present.
But with that said it would not be accepted by the ANC for him to be sidelined or replaced as Kaptein.
Unfortunately he is being used for political reasons by you know who.
Blackwood got lucky to make it closer, but it still was a walk in the park...
I agree that both Elgar and Bavuma should go...and I don't see the point with playing Klaassen now...they should be begging De Kock to come back.
No, there's 26yr wickie Ryan Rickleton in the current squad ready to go.
De Kock fails when he needs to succeed, like at WCs. But what happened to Verrynne the man that the selectors were derelict in not selecting.
QsK won us twice the matches he lost us...we are better with him tban without...not playing him is stupid and weakens us...I would play him and Verreynne....Klaassen isn't bad, but it's too late for him...ship sailed already.
This is interesting, the top South African WC batsmen:
Klusener 124
AB de Villiers 63.52
Faf du Plessis 57.57
Gibbs 56.15
Miller 51.11
Hudson 47.58
Kirsten 47.41
……..
De Ock 29.8….way down on his ODI average for all internationals of 45.57. More proof that de Ock simply doesn’t come through when it counts. If we exclude the non crucial ODIs his stats plummet further.
That would include the Sri Lanka match in 2015, where their total was so low, pressure was alleviated and the dead rubber match against Oz when we were already out. Take those matches out and his average drops to a less than mediocre 22.64.
Pressure and poor technique…he was really a number 6 bat where he would occasionally come off.
Well Markram nearly got a century and Captain got into double figures.
Progress but that is against the WI not one of the major test teams.
Liked de Zorzi's steady knock.
Liked de Zorzi's steady knock.
So did I, let's hope there's a lot more to follow, we really don't need another one swallow.
Also interested to see how Rickleton goes in the 2nd innings.
165*
Well Captain really has played a responsible captain's innings at the right time.
Sure has us "Bavuma" knockers eating humble pie with this innings.
Good knock and I hope that he makes 200 plus.
Just shows that he has the talent and that hopefully the slump in his game is over.
Still on cricket did any of you folks watch the Green batting performance against India.
What a great cricketer this young man is.
Power batting on a spinners wicket and against India's best spinners......unbelievable performance.
Well done to him, but one swallow doesn't a spring make...he'll have to build on this, but our next test is only in 9 months time...we don't play enough tests...