Maaik, our cricket was in tatters long before their appointment. There isn't much they can do within current constraints. This will take much more time. Picking a brand new team of promising youngsters won't work...we can't destroy their careers by trowing them in too deep too soon. GS is the right man for the job, but there's no quick fix.
No it was the same guys Ock and Markram and Rabada. Our establishment players who don’t come through series after series.
You can hardly blame Smith and Boucher for us losing boet.
Maybe look at our lack of experience.
Also, lets take some positives out...
Janneman again showed his class
As did Verreyne
Mahaeraj looks like he needs a place in the ODI side
And we were again reminded why we should not have Pehlekwayo and Sipamla in the side.
No Mozart
You blame the wrong players for the constant losses. Your take om some players are BS amdf selection choices are tripe as well - your insistence that Klaasen should replace De Kock in the team is a typical example.
Talking about averages in the series the figures are as follows for the players hoighlighted bneong your per hates:-
Malam = 69
Verreynne = 62
Van der Dussen = 62
De Kock = 50
Bavuma = 28,2
Markram = 25,67
Smits = 18
Klassen = 5,67
Two of the duds you support are the worst players in the team.
Chippo
Agree with you, but add Smuts, Klaasen amd Hemdrioks to the list of undesirables.
Nonsense I have been very positive on Malan, and positive on Verreyne when I have seen him. I have not called for Klaasen since the WC. Hell you never wanted our top scorer in the series in the team......talk about wrong!
The reason our cricket is going down is lack of talent at the level we enjoyed for 20 years...there is no Smith, Kallis, AB, Steyn....just a mixed bag of hyped players who have failed to deliver....like Markram, Ock, and now Rabada.
Boucher's issue with Makram is that he is in great domestic form.
Malan and Verryne are early twenties and clearly have the goods. Make space for them both and give'em an extended run.
Markram's saving grace might be catching some confidence from a couple of lads that can hit the ball.
No idea what JJ is doing there. I can think of at least five other players I'd have instead.
We've seen what we will of Bavuma and 90 in home conditions is about the limit.
So lets analyze the above BS of Mozart, I left Miller out of the above averages, but his average is also 50 - and he and De Kock (the 7th ranked ODI batsman in the world) have been the targets of Mozart's insane attacks.
Mozart is a crazy age maniac and whenever players are selected to replace the seriously defective players retyring from the game - the replacements affectively has been near to retirement incompetents. For instance - he supported Elgar - the 33 year-old - who is now the Proteas test captain. The first team Elgar captained after his appointment as Protea captain was the Titans in the local 4 day final and the Titans lost the final by an innings and 78 runs despite the fact that the match was played over 2,5 days due to rain, Elgar's contribution in 2 innings was 27 runs - definitely an important part of the dismal Titans failure Having said that - I have never once seen any support for Malan by Mozart - he is way too young to be supported by Mozart/ anyway.
As to support of Verreyne his statement about support is laughable . Verrynne is a middle order batsman and wicketkeeper - so is Klaasen. Although Mozart try and hide it - his support of Klaasen to replace De Kock has been consistent with his past behavior. So where his support for Verreynne came from is really a joke in bad taste - is better still it was none-existent. Fact is that it was exactly opposite to what he now claims. When I wrote that Kallis and Verreynne who went to the same high school - and mentioned on site that Verreynne broke all the batting records set by Kallis at the school - Mozart nearly had a seizure. So his support for Cerreynne never existed.
So what went wrong in team selection since 2018 leading to the Proteas free-hall in the world rankings? The answer is simple - the wrong players have been selected to play for the Proteas team and there was every effort made to ensure that players under the age of 30 in the case of batsmen and 28 in the case of bowlers are not selected to play for the Proteas, It had nothing to do with actual performances and everything to do with experience,
Since selection was to chose between performances on provincial level should be the norm.. So lets as an example look at he averages of klaasen ansd Verreynne :-
4 day games 50 over games 20 over games
Klaasen 43,78 36,19 27.53
Verreynne 56.32 36,74 25.72
If the averages on the present Protea players and the potential replacements are made - the same type of information emerges in all cases bar in the cases if players like Markram and De Kock.
So what went wrong causing the decline in Proteas cricket? I will be blunt - shit team selections.
clevermike
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Since Smith and Boucher took over the Proteas were stumbling along and I believe was only the vcitors against the visiting SriLanja - the team with a seriously poor bowling attack. For the rest the Proteas are gong backweards at jey sped and they are worse than they were when the two took over,
So why is cricket going downhill faster than anytime since the start of 2019? Simple really it all has to do with team selection. The tams selected van best be described as BS and especially in the batting lime-ups pure and unadulterated BS.
That is where the selections were supershit - with players like Claassen, Smuts and virtually all others being under-performers who even on provincial levels performing poorer than real potential candidates,
The other problem is that the back-up bowlers selected were regular failures in the past - bit th braindead selections remain.