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Proteas need a new Eddie Barlow

Started by Mozart4 REPLIES1,460 VIEWS· 27 Mar 2015, 15:44
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MozartCaptain49,914 posts
27 Mar 2015, 15:44
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27 Mar 2015, 15:44#1

We seem to be passing an infectious disease from generation to generation. It really started in the 99 WC with the Gibbs early toss and the Donald debacle. Since then it has been passed on through subsequent WCs. And it has now infected the younger generation yet again....Rossouw and de Kock will be carrying scars from those hectic last 8 overs.

 

 

New Zealand by contrast seemed to have new belief, lifted by the talismanic leadership of McCullum......sometimes wrong, but never uncertain. The man dominated the match.

 

 

We have had many great players in the last 20 years....Donald, Pollock, Kallis, Amla, Steyn ....AB. But no great leader who made the team more than the sum of it's parts. No dominating personality that could calm the jitters.

 

In the sixties after some dismal series against Oz and England Eddie Barlow came along to lift South African cricket....partly by his skill as a player, but more by his indomitable personality. We badly need a new Eddie Barlow.

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clevermikeCoach57,555 posts
27 Mar 2015, 17:42
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27 Mar 2015, 17:42#2
 Eddie Barlow was not the captain, but he was a team man par excellence.  However in that group was  a number of top players like the Pollocks, etc.
None of them played ODI cricket, where the requirements are entirely different - so to go back to the 1960's and come up with a statement about totally misleading info in the first instance - one has to wonder what this is about:-
*   The Gibbs toss was plain and simple idiocy - the Donald fiasco - i.s a totally misleading description, i was the Klusener fiasco.
*   The issue here is about ODI's - not test cricket,  Granted Mozart does not know the difference - so he would not understand the reasoning.   Pollock was a top ODI player - a top all-rounder.  Kallis was a valuable all-rounder with a tendency to use  test batting in ODI's - ie  bat at a very slow runrate,  De Villiers is by far the best batsman we ever had in ODI's.  Both Donald and Steyn were always better test bowlers than ODI bowlers.
The besotted Village idiot could not help it - "Rossouw and de Kock will be carrying scars from those hectic last 8 overs."   Why that stupidity - as if they are the players who let down the team all on their own.   Mozart tried to put over a message - but his besotted  mentioning of De Kock in each message he posts, indicates his rank lack of knowledge about ODI's and is really discrediting every message by him.        
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MozartCaptain49,914 posts
27 Mar 2015, 17:48
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27 Mar 2015, 17:48#3

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clevermikeCoach57,555 posts
27 Mar 2015, 17:56
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27 Mar 2015, 17:56#4
 Another childish post - wil l this idiot ever grow up?
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MozartCaptain49,914 posts
27 Mar 2015, 18:02
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27 Mar 2015, 18:02#5
On the contrary it says everything that needs to be said.  
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