Why do they keep picking these 30 year old failures? If we had Hamza at 3 it would have saved everybody a whole lot of time.
Van der Dussen in full flow is an elegant bat, who should have been in the mix earlier in his career.
The Malan second innings at Newlands were better IMO, but it makes the same point.
Read what I wrote about runs being scored and the average for this series, I gave credit to Van der Dussen and think that he us a good cricketer, but from a longer team perspective not a basis to deal with the future of the Proteas, Other than De Kock Van der Dussen was the only batsman who showed a will to fight back but unfortunately his batting performances are erratic. For instance in the first Proteas innings of the 4th test he scored a duck, In the 8 innings Van der Dussen batted he made 3 fifties, but in five innings he was poor to below par.
I do think that if there is another batsman to be retained other than De Kock it could be Van der Dussen for the nex t year or so - but that will not be a longer term solution as to team building must be priority 1,