Proteas squads named for Test Series and A team match against England

Who is on the Selection Committee?

Linda Zondi (welcomed back on board on Saturday) then headed up a panel also comprising Hussain Manack, Domingo and two former national players in Ashwell Prince and Errol Stewart.

I do not trust any of the SC members to even make a basic selection of players to play test cricket,   Where is Graeme Smith and Boucher in all this??????   

Test series

Faf du Plessis (Titans, captain), Temba Bavuma (Lions), Quinton de Kock (Titans), Dean Elgar (Titans), Beuran Hendricks (Lions), Keshav Maharaj (Dolphins), Pieter Malan (Cape Cobras), Aiden Markram (Titans), Zubayr Hamza (Cape Cobras), Anrich Nortje (Warriors), Dane Paterson (Cape Cobras), Andile Phehlukwayo (Dolphins), Vernon Philander (Cape Cobras), Dwaine Pretorius (Lions), Kagiso Rabada (Lions), Rudi Second (Warriors), Rassie van der Dussen (Lions) 

A-team match

Temba Bavuma (Lions), Nandre Burger (Cape Cobras), Theunis de Bruyn (Titans), Reeza Hendricks (Lions), Pieter Malan (Cape Cobras), Andile Phehlukwayo (Dolphins), Dane Piedt (Cape Cobras), Lutho Sipamla (Warriors), Glenton Stuurman (Warriors), Pite van Biljon (Knights), Kyle Verreynne (Cape Cobras)

So what have we got here:-

1   Temba Bavuma = who failed repeatedly in India and has a good batting record once in a Blue Moon,  

2   Elgar slightly better than Bavuma, since he has a good batting record twice in a blue moon

3   Beuran Hendriks - when last did he play an average game even on provincial level?

4   Pieter Malan - where is his brother Janneman - who has a better record than him

5   Dane Piett - has this guy not had enough failure records yet?

6   Somebody will have to get De Kock, Markram and Rabada to apply themselves more diligently t o play cricket

7   Where is Breetzke and Van Tonder in the "A-team"

Boucher must be careful,   The following statement will rule him out of favour with the tip expert on site Mozart:-

"When asked over the possibility of bringing back some of South Africa's lost talents in England, Boucher revealed that he'd love to strengthen the Proteas similar to how Rassie Erasmus transformed the Springboks.

"If you look at rugby, the way the Springboks won the World Cup, the experience they got from players playing overseas was invaluable," Boucher told reporters at Newlands on Saturday."

How dare he be that stupid to say such a positive thing about Erasmus???   

Dave

I would pick the following batsmen from that lot:-

1   Malan 

2   Edgar/Markram

3   Du Plessis

4   Hamza

5   Van Biljon

Duplica te

How the hell could you overlook Bavuma, you are going to piss some one off bigtime.

Stand ready Mike.

Shit donkey-brain is back with no brai n in is head.    Smith and Boucher have no say in team selection and they were given a poor squad at best and they have to accept it???''

All you come up is glorification of  Amla,  As far as I remember Amla retired from all formats of the game and to pine about a player that has show signs of deteriorating in performance over the 18 months before retirement is an exercise in futility.

Dave

Should have checked - did not realize Malan is 30 years old already,   janneman is only 23 years old - he should have been the choice.    

Rudi Second - 30 yrs

Dale Patterson - 30yrs

Beuran Hendricks - 29yrs

Denny

Thanks - they have gone nowhere playing professional cricket for ten years and now they  suddenly are in the squad.   That is what I call real BS.   I would have taken youngsters like Breetzke, Janneman Malan  and  Van Tonder into the squad and start a real development programme.  

That is what I believe Boucher would aim at - but neither he nor Smith has any say in selections and  that is why I said there is no  signs of development of players without a drastic change in the way SAC is run.    

Mike, are you serious?

Pite van Biljon is 33 years old.

Dave

Mozart will say the team of oldies are selected on merit - I won't.   I cannot understand why the selection is not done by Smith and Boucher - I think they are being thrown under a bus - if not successful they will get the blame,

My team would have been as follows:-

Markram 

Janneman Malan

Van Tonder

Du Plessis

Breetzke

De Kock

Hlehlukwayo

Rabada

Maharaj

Nortje

Ngidi/Sipamla

Breetzke was very good in the recent Mzanzi series and is still very young and could improve with more experience and better coaching,    He is only 20 years of age and his batting average is just about 30.   He played in 17 first class matches and batted in 29 innings scoring 732 runs,   A lot of room for improvement available.          

I can assure you of one thing - he would not be any wo rse than some of the other clowns in the squad already, 

Mike

Have you considered sending the list with the players' ages to CSA? I bet it wasn't a consideration when they made their dumb selections.

It's a squad targeting quota selections. Under the current circumstances the useless selection committee should be aborted, instead, the selection of all squads should be made by the ANCparlaimentary sports committee.

Dave there are younger players available and my guess is that they are white hence my above comment. But that aside I think the point is that there's no hope in hell they can build a squad with the WC in mind with an aged group. Madness mate, friggin madness. At this point in time and with the WC in mind it is better to invest in younger players who show potential.

Denny

It is no use sending a list giving the age of players to CSA - so I send an e-mail on the issue to the SA Cricket Association,  They are CSA most difficult problem and I am sure they will do something about it,  

Bavuma out of the first test with a muscle strain - what now?