Young pop guns fire blanks...weaknesses exposed

This side lacks experience, with 3 relatively untested batsmen in the top 6. It also lacks a credible 5th bowler. The CWC will be decided as much be those weaknesses as by the brilliance of Amla, AB and Steyn.

We now know the Indian thrashing was no fluke....the side as a whole is weak under pressure. We eschewed the opportunity to lure back Kallis for one last run at glory....that horse has long since bolted. But we need to lose one of our 3 young bats and add a bowler.

Bring in Philander for the frozen de Kock. This is no place for a boy. Start with Rossouw or hell, start with Philander he is much more likely to make some runs than de Kock.

And forget about the JP Duminy fifth bowler notion. Were it not for the run out and Duminy being withdrawn he was about to be destroyed. He simply doesn't have enough guile and deception to bowl against big hitters with their eye in.

As I said before, thrashing the weak non combative WI team really gave us a false sense of our talents. Time to get real.

De Kock can't open. We could drop him to number 6 if AB doesn't want to keep....but it's very late for that. Could he score at number 6....there has to be a lot of doubt. And if we keep him one of Miller or Rossouw need to go to find a balanced attack.

We need 5 real bowlers....Duminy can be used for a short burst but for him to have to bowl 10 overs seems hugely dangerous 

Moz, I hate to say it but your calls have been on the money all along. Faf might as well open, let's face it with the kid going for small chips Faf is facing the new ball anyway. 

JP as you've said is not a fifth bowling option, I'd go with 4 quicks and Tahir and if the kid has to be dropped so be it. The youngsters are not ready.

For the time being I am gutted.

Those stats mean nothing.....for a start there is nothing special in the Pakistan or Indian bowling attack.......we failed as a side, it had stuff all to do with the young guns.

The Pakistan and Indian seamers are no better than the WI's ones......pretty average at best.......we just failed batting against average attacks.

I am not interested in what happened against Sri Lanka and NZ in warm up games that does not come into the equation.

Against India Miller was caught on the boundary with a one handed catch.....it was a great shot......he was hardly beaten......he was beaten against Pakistan with a great Yorker, which would have beaten the likes of AB or Amla

As for Rossouw, he was caught on the boundary playing a poor ball down leg, he was hardly beaten.

de Kock has failed in both innings, but his ball against Pakistan was a pearl.

Miller and Rossouw have not come close to failing.......both are class acts up to the task.

As for JP, his bowling record speaks for itself and there is no reason in the world he cant bowl 10 overs.

A career average of 5 per over confirms that......its not like he is a new kid on the block.

Um wake up you idiot......I'm talking stats over a period of time, not in 4 matches where 2 of them were warm up games you idiot.

I look at JP over his career, not one bloody match where Moz is beating his chest telling us he is right about JP as a bowler......bullshit, is average is 5 rpo over his career, being smashed for three 6's in one over does not define him as a bowler......nor does Miller getting caught out on the boundary by a one handed catch against Indian and being beaten by a great yorker against Pakistan define him as a bat.

What I was saying about Miller was that he is far better than the ignorance you had I believe.....I showed you up for the crap you speak.

Miller has rubbed your nose in it.....you got him wrong

Yep and I know full well the side as a whole failed it was not down to an individual or two who happened to be young.

The SA side is laden with older players.....Amla, Faf, AB, JP, Philander, Morkel, Steyn and Tahir are all old/older......that's 72% of our side.......our failure has little to do with the youngsters......if age was to blame, we would have to lay the blame with the 72% of the side who have the experience  

Um wake up you idiot......I'm talking stats over a period of time, not in 4 matches where 2 of them were warm up games you idiot.

I look at JP over his career, not one bloody match where Moz is beating his chest telling us he is right about JP as a bowler......bull[removed], is average is 5 rpo over his career, being smashed for three 6's in one over does not define him as a bowler......nor does Miller getting caught out on the boundary by a one handed catch against Indian and being beaten by a great yorker against Pakistan define him as a bat.

What I was saying about Miller was that he is far better than the ignorance you had I believe.....I showed you up for the crap you speak.

Miller has rubbed your nose in it.....you got him wrong

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Oh what utter rubbish there are more than 3 experienced players in the side....an average of 38 and 27 for Amla and Faf is hardly winning material.

Vlag you are speaking shit again......his overall average has increased since he batted at 5 exposing you for the ignorant fool you are....but wait for it lets exclude the centuries he made......because hey ho it makes so much sense......geez talk about thick  

One certainty is that I know exactly what an average entails and Millers average has shot through the roof while he has batted at 5 - FACT and with it came the exposure of an ignorant old fool.

As I said, Miller will continue to improve and his overall average will slip into the 40's in the very near future........and I will continue to remind you what an ignorant fool you are.

Egg - face - egg  

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Ah so Miller has collapsed in a heap being caught on the boundary at the end of an innings and getting out to a great yorker.........do you actually know anything about cricket or do you just hide behind meaningless variables.......my guess is that you don't know which end of the bat to hold.

So 3 balls define JP as a bowler do they.......WOW  

Poor batting against Pakistan......that just confirms how stupid you are?

We all know Miller is a class act, you are just smarting for being exposed for your profoundly ignorant call on him.......but don't worry, I'll keep reminding you as the months go by and Miller's average keeps climbing.

Exposed and smarting.....live with it you dunce