Proteas ODI squad....

led by De Kock as captain, a no brainer choice.

As for the squad, some good, some not so good.

Quinton de Kock (captain), Reeza Hendricks, Temba Bavuma, Rassie van der Dussen, David Miller, Jon Jon Smuts, Andile Phehlukwayo, Lutho Sipamla, Lungi Ngidi, Tabraiz Shamsi, Sisanda Magala, Bjorn Fortuin, Beuran Hendricks, Janneman Malan, Kyle Verreynne.  

Bavuma?.....not sure 

Miller - serial failure

Shamsi......Is he a spin bowler or a slow bowler?

Beuran Hendricks.....useless

Reeza Hendriks.....Methuselah after a triple by-pass

Better than the test squad batting line-up - but for the following:-

*   Bavuma is not an ODI batsman's arse or perhaps he is,

*   Where is Rabada and Nortje?

*    Beuran Hendricks is not even close to an ODI bowler

*    Reeza Hendriks - agree with Denny

This is the first sign that Du Plessis is out of contention for future selection.  He is likely to announce his retirement from all international cricket after the next test.

The batting line-up is likely to be  as follows:-

1   Janneman Malan

2    De Kock

3    Smuts 

4    Verreyne

5    Van der Dussen 

6    Miller

7    Phehlukwayo

I am not worried about De Kock's captaincy at all.   At least in the T20I series in India  in September last year De Kock was the  captain and it was one of the very few series the Proteas managed to win over the last two years.

Amongst the bowlers Sipamla is an interesting selection.  Smuts is a very good spin bowler and he is likely to be the spinner when playing on pitches  where spin bowling is required.  The likely all-rounder in the team for that reason.  Excited by the selection of Verreyne.   

I think the 2021 T20I WC series was borne in mind with some selections.  That is perhaps why some of the players are included in the squad to see how they do.   Would have liked to see Van Tonder in the squad as well ahead of Reeza Hendriks.      

I haven't seen any of the young guns but if it means sitting up through the early hours of the morning then I will. But looking at the squad I guess it's just too hard an ask to expect fair play....Bavuma? Siestog. Reeza ....Foeitog.

We have two opposition, the one we face on the field and the one within.....it's called Quota.

Of the two the latter is more dangerous.

Dave

Markram is still injured - who else do you suggest?  

Rabada and Nortje are being rested for the series,  

What is the fixation with 30yr old average players? If you haven't raised the bar at 30 then you ain't going to raise it at 31 or 32. Why can't they see that it's better to invest in  youth who fail than an average 30 year old who already is a failure?

Is the problem unique to South Africa? I look around and read of youngsters running around for their country.......golly gosh why do we choose to be different?

Cannot but agree more with you and would like other younger players in the squad.  I can think of Markram when fit.   Also of young Ackerman, Van Tonder and Breetzke - who else?

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Lack of age doesn't compensate for lack of talent.

Totally deficient form by experienced players lose matches.   In the case of the present  players  like Faf and Elgar the form loss  due to age is permanent and cannot be recovered.  

However, you know nothing about talent insofar as the younger players are concerned - you did not even know that players like Verreyne amd Sipamla existed before ,mentioned on site repeatedly  - leave alone what their talent capacity is,  The talent of none of the other youngsters you know ZERO about - so what is you above comment worth?   As per normal ZERO            

Exactly - both Amla and Kallis started off poorly in tests - but they were young enough to develop to become great players,    They did not come on the scene as 30 year-olds.    Why can other younger players like Verreyne and co not be in the same situation?     

Because they don't have the talent....your thinking is arse about face. Kallis, AB, Amla were precocious talents.....demanding a spot in the team. Yes they may have struggled a bit at the start, but the massive promise was there.

Other young greats like Richards and Pollock were instant successes. .

All you have done is come up with a lost of okay young players, who will not develop into great test cricketers. Hell if Hamza is close to the best of this crop it's an awful crop.

Mozart knows nothing about talent of younger players,  He can write about it and in most cases he did not even know of existence of players mentioned on site.   He did not know that for instance Verreyne broke every school record set by Kallis while attending the same school  and that Hamza had a better performance record than Amla had at school. and in the performance in senior provincial level after leaving school.

Mozart wrote the following:-

"Because they don't have the talent....your thinking is arse about face. Kallis, AB, Amla were precocious talents.....demanding a spot in the team. Yes they may have struggled a bit at the start, but the massive promise was there."

There are some of the youngsters who were better than the three players mentioned who were kept out of the team by the idiots running SA Cricket and who are equally talented to what  the "arse about face" Mozart knows.   He does not even know about the players yet in his dumbness he expressed an opinion on precocious talents,  What an arsehole he always is, 

Oh sure we have Barry Richards ready to play and the selectors are willfully  ignoring him. Just another Wanker ‘discovery’.

I did not mention any Richards - Dave did/  And it is not Barry Richards dolt.

It is Barry Richards...... Wanker......that’s who I was  referencing, not some newbie. Here:

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Dave 

Looks another promising player to be borne in mind.  His stats are really impressive - having played in 13 games and scoring 1 century and  3 fifties are very good,