The first ODI game will start today,   It seems as if players like De Kock, Miller, Tabafa, Nortje and Ngidi will only play in the first two ODI's and then go to India for the IPL.

I will post the selected team before the start of the match today, but one can expect as per normal some really weird selections to prevail.    

Based o present form he team to play today should e the following:-

Markram,  Malan, De Kock, Verreynne, Miller, Bavuma, Mulder, Linde, Rabada, Nortje and Ngidi,   

I would not have included Bavuma at all,   but the SAC  goats made him the captain.       

The idiots  selected as expected the worst failures to play for the Proteas today.   This is the shot teams elected with all the failures against all teams in the team:-

Markram, De Kock, Bavuma, Van der Dussen, Klaasen, Miller, Phehlukwayo, Rabada, Nortje, Nigidi, Shamsi 

This is really a hopeless situation for SA - mad as hatters those selectors are..    The projected failures are high-lighted,.      

Hi Mike

What are your thoughts?

Should we drop van set dussen?

His strike rate after 50 runs is only 72.

Bavuma got...1.

Are we surprised? What's this guy's internation record? 

Tests...

73 innings - 32 average - 1 century

ODI...

6 innings - 55 average - 1 century

Clearly this is the record of a deserved #3 bat. Nothing to see here. Move on.

Hahaha what a joke.

Best to not express an opinion on Bavuma (el Kaptein) as you might upset the Lefties and the brothers running the show.

AJ, I've had my fill of it all. 

Where i once was an ally, I'm now acting as I and my family have been treated. Hiring and firing, helping or ignoring and giving or taking purely based on skin color. 

Where i would previously tip a car guard R10, I now keep it and donate it somewhere "better". Where i treated students equally, I now make a point of only helping those that I "see fit" to assist. And I'm convincing those of light hue, such as myself, to do the exact same. Surprisingly, based in the disgraceful racism of the SA government, it doesn't take much convincing.

A year ago I still cared about young POC minds being sucked in and poisoned by BLM. Now, I feel like donating to them because I feel it my duty to contribute to the net social deficit they will inevitably suffer as a result. I hope they all become good little commies, are treated as commie supporters were and suffer the very same fate as all those that previously thought marX had some good ideas.

Don't tell me your story, it's of no consequence. 

All that matters is hue. Thanks my SA brothers, for showing my the light.

Aah, the simple life.

Match lost .   New captain flopped badly as expected/  Aside from the captain the worsts elections were Klaasen (1 run from 21 balls faced)   and Shamsi  (no wickets taken) and believe it or npt defective fielding by Van der Dussen  - missing a sitter catch - was in fact the difference between winning a nd losing,   And Andile's no-ball was the final nail in the coffin.

I would immediately replace Klaasen  with Verreynne and  Phehllukwayo with Mulder, Give Van der Dussen another chance - he is bound to fail on Sunday.       

Mike, I think Phehllukwayo had a very good last 2 overs...didn't see much else of the match.

The no-ball bowled by him was good?   Made me wonder,  

Mike

I liked your team unfortunately for some unknown reason they chose failure. There were several players and reasons one can blame for the loss but I believe the single biggest reason as to why they lost was Klaasen's 1 run off 20 balls.

Eina!

We will have to see tomorrow what happens as to team selection  but I am afraid it will be another disaster - for instance replacing Klaasen with Smuts,     

I saw a pic of  Boucher sitting in the stand  at the time of the loss, and his face looked like a threatening thunder storm is looming.              

Ngidi bowld the only no-ball from the South Africans....and was the most expensive of our bowlers too...

So the same team for the second ODI and another loss is highly likely.

The only thing that mystifies me is how can players who fail on provincial level be expected to be   better on international level.    I think Boucher and Smith are at  fault here and cricket is rapidly going down the drain in SA. 

Another loss today would just be a continuation of the disaster that hit SA cricket two years ago and nobody has any idea about how to deal with that crisis/           

Hi Mike.

Interested to know your thoughts.

Should we drop de Kock?

He only scored his first 50 off 60 balls. That’s very slow for modern cricket.

Interested to know your thoughts on this and also Rassies innings in game 1.

Should they be dropped?

Not necessary - De kock is off to India and will not take part in the rest of this series,

I think that we should drop Klaasen - who was to replace De Jock as WK  and that was a failure,   Verreynne is a much better batsman and WK than Klaasen  anyway,   

I still think that Phehlukwayo is not acceptable on international level/          

But Mike. don’t you think rassie should be dropped?

And I’d drop de Kock anyway. He bats too slowly.

Not necessarily immediately  - but what bothered me is that his averages on provincial level is wat below that of other competing players and one wonders  how long at his age it would be before he fails like  Du Plessis and Amla  in the end did.    He is not a longer term investment in the game and I am in favor of replacing  him with a  more capable and technically better batsman like Van Tonder,     Rassie against top class bowlers is  a fearful sight to see  - for example he  failed on provincial  level when facing Nortje. Sipamla and M Pretorius in recent games.     .

I’d drop Dussen....with all those high scores he’s bound to fail next time.

Mozart

The age maniac at it again  and performances against a weak Pakistan bowling attack and the Sri Lankan farce  is in your book suddenly the norm,    You  apparently do not realize that  reputation selections caused the problems in SA cricket over the past three  years as measured by the ranking of the team,.   

By the way = what happened to your hero Klaasen?       1 Run from 21 balls faced in the first  ODI - after similar dud performances in Pakistan - followed by an atrocious performance in the second ODI is obviously the wise selection - he is of the right age for selection  and performance means nothing in your book and the same applies to those of Boucher and Smith,    .