In the games played last week -
* Verreinne, Markram, Rickelton and Van Tonder put in quality batting performances, while most of the other national players were substandard,
* amongst the three games played two were drawn and only the Dolphins beat the Highveld Lions,
The games starting today are between -
* the Cape Cobras vs the Knights;
* the Warriors and the Dolphins; and
* the Highveld Lions and the Titans.
Once again we have a chance to see how the players perform in the series.
Dave
Van Tonder batted at 3 - bur when all the others went out quickly they moved his name doiwn to 7.
As to the following Lions batsmen - they all failed:-
Reeza Hendricks, Van der Dussen and Bavuma and badly so,
I saw that in the series thus far Markram was the top batsman, followed by Van Tonder and Verreinne. Elgar came in 9th with an average of 29,37. Is that good enough? Elgar is out for 2 runs after facing 17 balls.
Dave
Sure Markram again showed his class again and is already in the Proteas team so no comments on him. How they can keep players like Verreynne and Van Tonder out of the team and retained Van der Dussen and Bavuma in the team is a miracle only the selectors and Smith and Boucher must explain.
Also appointing Elgar as captain is another issue that needs explaining, The dumbest decision ever by the SAC circus. . . .
Dave
I doubt whether the idiots would pick Verreynne ahead of Van der Dussen in the test side. I think that Van Tonder will be the replacement for Du Plessis anyway,
As for Elgar - after his 2 runs yesterday his average in the series is down to 27,73 runs per innings in the series and is bound to go down further in the second innings in the game.
So in two innings in the game the Great according to SAC ands nobody else Bavuma made 14 ruins and the useless Van der Dussen made 16 runs, Will Elgar equal those two with a mere 2 runs in the first innings?
Dave
The quota norms keep them, from playing.
It's not that hard to put together a younger promising team, one with the future in mind and one given time would be competitive but for some strange reason CSA has totally lost it.....once again.
Seems like the selectors enjoy impaling the team long before the start of the game.
If Smith and Boucher have any guts to standup to the selectors and say they would quit if the selections are not on merit then they would serve the interests of cricket in SA, What is happening at present is also a reflection on them and put them in a poor light. Seems they are too cowardly and gutless to take any determined action ag ainst the fools in SAC,
I've offered an explanation previously, Saffex.
Not sure if you read it
I'll paste it here...
"I think that rugby and bowling in cricket are, in some senses, more reliant on speed, stamina and physical ability while batting is more of a mental art. Of the two popular sports, I'd say tennis and cricket, particularly batting, are the most deeply reliant on wide muscle memory pools. Too wide to be picked up sufficiently for a professional standard after 16-17 years of age.
The guys don't see cricket in primary school, then get to high school and perhaps take up the game in Grade 9 or 10. That's well behind the mark compared to the standard of the kids that played cricket for most of primary school. And it's not an issue that you can force. You simply have to make cricket available to black kids in primary schools across SA.
Failing that, you cannot expect the late starters to stand shoulder to shoulder with their peers - certainly from a batting perspective.
It's unfair and toxic to everyone involved."
I can tell you that in the kids cricket I watch, I just don't see young black batters that often. Bowlers = many.
I do not buy that that parents don't have the funds. R800 is enough to buy a primary school kid's kit. And I see people walking around with shoes that are more expensive than that more often than not.
If it's a case of not having access to equipment I'd say the culprit is more than likely an unwillingness to invest rather than an inability to do so.
Between the parents and the government, there is ample money to buy equipment. They could probably haggle a deal where they'd pay R600 for a kit(bat,pads, gloves, box, helmet).
Stepping aside from the political selections of which I've been a strong critic I've tried to point out that the squad is super crap. Whoever is responsible for choosing the squads is clueless.
Jon Jo n Smuts, Heinrich Klaasen, van de Dussen and perhaps one other non colour player are equally as useless as the quota selections.
As someone that is not, or should I say, "was not" racist - How am I supposed to respect a party/race that discriminates against children and believes it's completely justified in doing so?
The truth is that only a bottom feeding and inadequate group of people with no sense or morality would do this.
The way that blacks saw whites as complicit during apartheid is exactly how I have begun to see blacks now.
They're bloody 90% of the population but cannot create their own opportunity. Instead it's easier to take opportunity away from others, even if they're children.
Per capita they are far and away the most guilty of murder, rape and other violent crime throughout the world, from the 1st to the 3rd world and that has fuck all to do with apartheid and everything to do with their race and bad choices that individuals within it make.
And that's the real reason why it's fine with them to discriminate against white children purely on the basis of their skin color.
PS Donating money to an orphanage that is predominantly white, due to geographic location, does not contribute to a company's BEE rating. If the orphanage is black...then it does. Yes, not even white orphans are safe or left alone. They are actively discriminated against.
It's bloody shameless.
And do you think it will abate in the next 25 years?
Of course, it won't.
"SA cricket is at an all time low - we have shocking selectors, a coach who seems out of his depth and a domestic game lacking a quality standard thanks to some shockingly poor standard players on board"
Pretty much says it all. Hope alone is not going to win you a trophy and hope went out the window the day mediocrity became the benchmark.
As a player and captain, Smith was one of our best. Probably the best skipper we've ever had.
However, according to his ex-wife's family, he is an attention whore.
Wouldn't put it past Smith to sell out the game if it means he'll remain in the top job. As it stands, he already bent over backwards to support BLM, and don't tell me he doesn't know what that group of commies is about and who they are funded by. And if he didn't know, then a responsible person in his position has a duty to find out before throwing his weight behind it.
Like many Springboks did when they refused to kneel for the black commie organisation. Remember how they got slated and called racists...even though they were wearing "anti-racism" t-shirts at the time. It wasn't enough to support anti-racism. No no no...kneel for the commies or you are racist and the government will investigate you.
Here's an article, in case you forgot. The government actually demanded answers as to why guys that brought them a world cup did not kneel for a movement that is openly declared as communist.
i'm racist but you may not be...now kneel before me.
Funny no? We(government) demand anti-racism and for you to kneel before us but, at the same time, we will omit deserving white children from a position purely on the basis of their skin and nothing else...all while we'll talk about hunting down racists.
Stupid, idiotic, hypocritical, intimidating...all of the above.
I see the new vice-captain and Ngidi are also all about the need to transform cricket IE to deny deserving people an opportunity because of the colour of their skin. Let's be honest, that is what transformation actually means. Always rooted for Bavuma but when these players start becoming political for personal gain then I can't help but want them to fail. I hope he never gets another 100. And I do hope he wears a few in the upcoming series.
The million $ question...how many cricket kits has Bavuma, now in a very privileged position, bought for young aspiring black cricketers? Someone on Twatter wanna ask him? Get ready to be ignored haha and likely blocked.
We've seen this movie before. It's his duty to pay lip service to ultimately racist goals but it's truly a bridge too far to ask him to sacrifice a bit of cash for a kid that loves cricket. Guy is probably sitting on well over R10m in the bank by now. What percentage of his loot do you think he has offered back to the game...I'll have a guess that the figure currently stands at R00.00. But but but...transformation though...ne? I'll talk about it but somebody else(whites) must make it happen.
Truth is, parents of white cricketing kids have done more in terms of supporting young black players. From charities and donations to financially supporting talented kids out of their own pocket and maintaining smaller clubs that offer kids free games, kit and training. I've seen this happen since my schooling days up to the present day. These wanky professional players who are in a way better position(top 1% wealthiest people in the country) to help out do nothing but talk in order to appease their ANC masters.
Tossers, the lot of them. I wish them all nothing but ill...and plenty of bouncers right to the chops.
"However, according to his ex-wife's family, he is an attention whore. "
Look who's talking...
In JHB, Saffex.
Not for much longer though. Our house hunting in Nova Scotia is in full swing. Were it not for Covid we'd have been out of SA last year.
Can't wait to leave this place that Trump aptly labelled a shithole.
PS We've just had a three week spell of loadshedding that was caused by apartheid and had nothing all all to do with stupidity and greed.
Back to cricket. The final in the series was supposed to start on Thursday - buy die to heavt rainfall in Durban only 10 overs were bowled and the Dolphins made 31 runs,
Yesterday was even worse. There was no cricket at all, When I spoke to Johnny Rey yesterday afternoon he told me that there were 6 cm in in Ballito yesterday and likely the same in Durban. If these conditions remain there will doubtlessly no cricket again today.
I was shocked out of my wits on Thursday. I had no communication with my brother since 24 December 2020 - he just does not bother to phone me and when I spoke to him he told me that my 80 year-old sister-in-law tested positive for Covid 19 in early January, I then asked him whether they know how it happened and he told me that her sister and bother-in-law from Somerset West visited them for the New Year weekend and stayed a few days with them. After their return to Somerset West he got sick and was tested - and he was positive. My sister-in-law and my brother then went for testing and she was positive and my brother not so. She did not show any sign of serious illness and when tested three weeks later she was negative. .
Plum
Wonder whether the open-border policy of Biden apply to SA refuges as well? There are at least 4 million Whites and 3 million Coloreds and Indians that could benefit to get out of the hell-hole that SA became.
Doubt whether the Biden Administration would bite at that because very few would vote for the Democrats in elections since they have already been bitten hard by the Socialist ANC - who would love to get rid of them anyway.
If I was in my 30's in the 1990's I would have been out of SA already for 25 years. So good luck to you.