Sri Lanka are super shit

Dave

I was very disappointed in  Markram,   He wa trying to block out the SL bowlers without any idea about scoring runs.    Am afraid he is not good enough in that tyoe of thing.   But his normal style and that made him vulnerable,

The other disappointments in the game was Ngidi - looks like he might be carrying an injury,    Was not bowled as much as Mulder and Nortje  and when he did bowl he was at best b owling medium pace deliveries.

And your hero Sipamla also bowled at an average speed of below 133 in his second spell -but he was unfortunate - he could have had a second wicket was it not for Bavuma  dropping a easy catch,   However, he still has not taken an early order batsman - but there s one clear issue - he bowled better than Ngidi.         .   

No wonder Bavuma got a 50.

He like Elton are best at Provincial level not tests.

Sure he gets a run or two but he is not a player you can depend on at bat.

OK Dave

I was just pulling your leg a bit.  Unfortunately  Sipamla did not take out the best batsman in the Srilanka innings,   The best batsman was Kusal Perera - one of Mulder's victims, 

Da Silva - whose wicket Sipamla took - is the number 8 on the batting order and a bowler - who are what we would call an all-rounder.  He may be batting at 8 because he is relatively new in the test sphere - but he is not a top order batsman,   So you are wrong again about Sipamla's record against top order batsman,  

It his pace pf circa 133 kph most top batsman will take him to the cleaners and score hu ge runs.   

He got most of his 29 runs when he took Ngidi to the cleaners and when facing a tired Mulder.    

Hos ja...not...Dave outa see!

"AJ you are as cricket ignorant as you are rugby ignorant"

It's never been about rugby or cricket for Arthur Farter, the fact that he knows nothing about either has been blatantly obvious from the time he landed his miserable ass on here, he's here to vent his racist spleen.......this is where he gets a favourable audience.

Logic Dave - logic please.   Both  Ngidi and  Sipamla failed when they bowled against higher order batsmen. 

By the way it looks like Ngidi  may be carrying an injury problem resulting in his subpar bowling in the present test.

Sri Lanka are bad as a result of their own pitch preparations. 

They rely too heavily on flat wickets with no bounce at home and then have no answer when they get tracks that cause the ball to climb off a length. Even the more gentle English pitches are too much for them. 

I'll venture a guess that the disparity between home and away batting averages for Sri Lanka is larger than any other T1 team.

Coconut feeling ignored are you.

You YWAT.

What about Du Plessis?   After two years of damage to SA Cricket through poor personal performances -  he came up with  one very good performance and then the 6/1 factor kick in with  real force.      

I said prior to the commencement of the series De Kock should have refused the captaincy.

Denny

He did refuse the captaincy and then he was after three days pf pressure and promises persuaded  to accept it for this series only and the Pakistan tour.   He obviously does not want the job with all the negatives attached to it such as having to captain a team with\a rapid decline in performance levels through quotas etc and he does not need the money anyway.       

Boucher didn't appoint him. 

There should not be a selection committee in SAC - the one in rugby was abolished as a condition laid down by Erasmus  before accepting the post of  Director of Rugby - since such a committee invariably destroy the game by stupid selections.   

There is no clarity whether Smith and Boucher have any say in anything substantial  and Boucher seems to be quite unhappy when shown on TV at games and there is no sight of Smith at any of the games.   

So is Boucher just following orders from SAC  and not do what he thinks is best for the team?  Looks very much like that is the case.    He must be careful - his reputation will be ruined if that continues.   

Rilee Rossouw...remember him?

We're now almost at a point where we can put together a better test squad with SA guys playing in the UK than we can from local talent. 

Long gone are the days where the county game helped us get rid of unwanted players like Boeta Dippenaar and Jaque Botha.

Now some of our best are there and seemingly don't want to return.

Though, I do hear that brexit will mean Saffas over there can represent SA again. Great stuff.

Oh and Tante.

You call Arthur a racist while at the same time spouting support for BLM on here.

Tell you what...

There is a group here called Kids First. It's founders are self-declared naziS. Trained naziS, even. They also openly support nazI ideology. But since the groups name is Kids F irst and on some level they support the well-being of children...I hope you'll offer them support. 

They don't do the salute but instead use a crossed wrists sign. Please send us a picture of you making this gesture...just so we know you don't hate children.

Thanks.

Tosser.

Dave

I read somewhere that the selectors had a meet with De Kock and asked him to take over the captaincy of the test side. The report stated that he wasn't interested, the selection committee then asked him to be the temporary captain for the Sri Lankan series. I'm not sure whether Bouch was part of that meet but what is clear is that the appointment wasn't solely made by Boucher.

to add to the captaincy discussion...

Selectors didnt want to give it to de Kock due to pressures of keeping, batting and captaining in white ball cricket.

but the other candidates have had a shit time of it and were no longer certainties. guys like elgar, markram and bavuma were not certainties in the starting eleven.... so the selectors dfid ther right thing and asked QDK to help out for a little while, while the other blokes put a few runs on the board and got some form back.

De Ock still hasn’t fixed his high hands, bat away from the body technique. So with his eye and timing he will continue to slaughter ordinary bowling. But put him against a moving ball and he will disappoint.

His average isn’t below 40 because he bats 7, it’s because he fails under stress. His average against top bowlers is less than 20 I’d guess. A kind of Roy McClean without Roy’s clean technique.

His keeping has improved though and one of those Sri Lanka catches was brilliant. Can he keep standing up though? In the past that hasn’t been too swift. But overall I think his keeping is now adequate and he can play a roll as a down the order attacking bat.

De Ock still hasn’t fixed his high hands, bat away from the body technique. So with his eye and timing he will continue to slaughter ordinary bowling. But put him against a moving ball and he will disappoint.

His average isn’t below 40 because he bats 7, it’s because he fails under stress. His average against top bowlers is less than 20 I’d guess. A kind of Roy McClean without Roy’s clean technique.

His keeping has improved though and one of those Sri Lanka catches was brilliant. Can he keep standing up though? In the past that hasn’t been too swift. But overall I think his keeping is now adequate and he can play a role as a down the order attacking bat.

"......his technique against the best bowlers in the game have long served him well"

Without a doubt. He has tapered his technique to his style of play which works for him. He has a variety of strokes, cuts, pulls, hooks, plays straight, to all parts of the ground. There's a whole lot to like about his style of play, never dull instead it's highly entertaining and in full drive he's up there with 360.

De Kock would waltz into any national side, no, what I mean to say is that he could comfortably place in any of the top 5 sides in the world.

So who does Mozart hate in rugby?  Top of the list is Erasmus as coach - his heroes are Meyer and Coetzee, whom in their stints as Springbok coach he praised and never criticized.

That is followed  by Du Toit, De Allende, De Jager, Malherbe, Marx. Kitshof  and Kolisi.    He now pretends to be a Pollard supporter - but he wanted Morne back at flyhalf and afterwards Frans Steyn at flyhalf.    

As to cricket he hates De Kock and Markram with a vengeance and he has yet not accepted that  there should be any team renewal in the cricket team.   Please note that he only attacked one player in the team in the 2019 team in the disastrous WC campaign and that was De Kock - the real poor players like Amla and Dale Steyn were for him the heroes in the campaign and the reason for the string of losses  were De Kock.   After two years of continuous poor scores with  only a rare success in batting by both Elgar and Du Plessis - De Kock is still the target for attack by Mozart.   

His initial attack on De Kock was that he could not play real fast bowlers - then that he could not play  spin bowling and more recently that he was not a wicketkeepers backside and suggested that he should be replaced by Klaasen as wicketkeeper,   Since 2013 he has never stopped attacking De Kock and what he writes now is nothing new.       

Amazing - but true.        

Duplic ation 

Dave

You mentioned Rilee Rossouw in one of your above contributions.  Rossouw was also a Kolpak player and is now playing in th Big Bash for one of the  Melbourne teams,   I tried to see how he is doing, but was out in two games for 3 runs and 8 runs respectively 

According to the report on the return of Abbott and his signing with the Titans  the English clubs kicked out a lot of  Kolpak signees because of Kolpak not applying to the UK since the departure from the EU, 

The self-serving buggers signed  the players for the simple reason  that  the Clubs could refuse to release foreign players if they are selected for international games b y their country of origin - especially damaging SA teams.

I would not be surprised if Rossouw is one of the players they booted out.   The only player that I think could still challenge for nationals election is Olivier - the others are past it,