I was looking forward to the game today until I saw the selected team. The fact is that they have no idea about coaching and team selection and my confidence in Boucher and Smith slipped down to the lowest level ever. - since there are no selection committee anymore and the selections must have been made by those two.
So they are in rebuilding phase and then pick over 30 players and then calls it rebuilding.
They will lose and that is a fact,
Hendriks and Van Biljon were my main problems in the team, Hendriks in one over gave away 28 runs of which 8 came from wides, But for him the Proteas had a small chance to win - but his disastrously poor bowling in over 17 destroyed that chance.
Nortje was one of the top bowlers in the IPL where he played om 16 twenty20 games and normally took the key wickets in the games he bowled in. Why was he not in the team?
Van Biljon never was a T20 player - his strike rate was always roundabout 100 and that is too low for a Twenty20 player, If they are building a team where was Verreine? He was top class in the recent 4 day games on provincial level - why was he not picked.
Klaasen is a lottery as well - for every good game he played in there are 4 bad games thrown in. Not my main problem - but a problem nonetheless. Why not open the batting with Janneman Malan and bring in Bavuma at 3?
So Faf du Plessis tried to excuse the disastrous bowling of Hemdriks - by saying that all players have off days - but the fact is on international level Hendricks only had OFF DAYS, Why did Du Plessis met with the press after the game and not De Kock as captain?
Maybe Quinton was so the hell in with the rubbish players in the squad that he would not have been diplomatic and could have condemned the "Old boy club" selections of that sub-par team by Smith and Boucher, Good players during their heyday - but obviously not the brightest sparks around when i t comes to teams election.
Now this takes the cake - they dropped the bowling flop Hendriks and brings in the batting flop Hendriks to replace Van Biljon. A better bowling attack - with no improvement in the batting Department.
Another loss and this time all the batsmen bar Quinton failed. And Ngidi helped the English by giving away 51 runs in hos four overs, All the other bowlers went for less than the required run rate,