Klaasen finally showed the Proteas what a match winning innings looks like. He did the whole job, not half the job. A rock! Verreyne looked very vulnerable in the first ten or so balls, but batted nicely afterwards. Miller contributed for once. Malan did go for a duck, but it was a wicked ball from Starc. How does he get so much late swing!
I hope Ock has learned his lesson about batting last when the team is fragile.
Amazing - did you watch the game at all?
What amazes you....try to stop wanking and be specific.
Your comments on Verreynne in the first instance - the first major partnership in the game was between Verreynne and Klaasen. When they got to 50 in the Partnership Verreynne made 32 and Klaasen 18 of the runs. So Klaasen struggled initially as well.
Secondly - when in a T20I game when Du Plessis failed miserably in batting you raved about a catch made by him. In the game today Verreynne made 3 catches - 2 of which were better or on par with the catch made by Du Plessis. Not a word of those two catches,
No mention about the bowling and fielding either - in the last 25 overs of the Aussie batting they manage to hit only 4 fours, In his 76 runs scored by Smith there were only 3 fours and in the 41 runs scored by Labuschagne there were only 2 both of which was hit by him as the second and third balls he faced, This has much to do with the quality of the bowling and the fielding and the field placings and bowling changes were excellent as well,
The team as a whole functioned better than any of the teams in the previous 18 months did in ODI's, Incidentally the previous team combination beat Australia in the WC as well. But they won I believe from memory by 4 runs, In the game today they beat Australia by 74 runs.
Get the message - dimness?
What you personally think is of zero worth - what actually happened is different from what you prefer to have happened. BS as per normal. The second catch involved as long run as what happened in the Du Plessis catch, Anyway Verreinne did not bugger up in batting like Du Plessis did.
You entirely missed the p lot again - the catch referred to the TV monitor was the one of Warner - not Smith. Smith was out LBW and obviously no catch was involved,
No he didn’t bugger and I’m glad you think his innings was a great success ....he scored 48 which is almost exactly Faf’s average for 135 ODI innings, so all he has to do to be like Faf is to repeat today’s success 134 more times.
Game, set and match!
OK - when the performance of Faf in the T20I was discussed you were raving about his catch - not about his batting performance which in that game was atrocious. That was the point I raised when it came to the catches made by Verreynne.
Anyway the guy is 22 years old and he improved on every batting record set by Kallis on school level and is also way above the strike rate in batting of Kallis subsequently, so he is likely to be better than Du Plessis ever was. Nobody would ever dispute the fact that in his day Faf was a great batsman for SA, but unfortunately that is past history and he is not going to be successful in future,
This was Verreynne's his first game as a Protea player and despite initial nerves he succeeded and he is likely to be better or as good as uany of the players you always praised.
The Indian series are coming up and his name will be first on the batsman list together with De Kock, Van der Dussen, Klaasen and Miller - that leaves a position for opening batsman open and that could go to Bavuma. The question remains where will Faf fit into that situation?. Probably nowhere,
And that was all I said: ‘ Verreyne looked very vulnerable in the first ten or so balls, but batted nicely afterwards.’
You can extrapolate that to being better than Kallis or Faf if you like. I’d like to see some more.
Time will tell. But he is technically much sounder than de Ock.
I have been following Verreynne's career for a while and he should have been in the squad and we would have gone through the semis and not ended up 7th in the series. To much dependence on players who are over the hill cost us dearly when the chips were down especially those that could only have a 64 strike rate in batting and others who failed miserably,
As to Du Plessis he is sticking around to go to the T20 WC in Australia in October, Like Kallis in 2015 who failed repeatedly to impress and then withdrew from selection for he ODI WC that year I think that Faf would be in the same boat/ He may himself decide to retire and not spoil his reputation further, .