Assume Smith and Markram going to improve batting skills.....
Parnell and Duminy are more than a rash,,,, you can`t just take some cream to get rid of them it is probably going to involve some not very nice surgery at this point.Yhyh we know , Parney is like a sore rash that never wants to go away. I think all teams have them around the world.
Yhyh we know , Parney is like a sore rash that never wants to go away. I think all teams have them around the world.
Parnell 'dabs' after taking a wicket sometimes. You can't buy that kind of player. I say keep him in the team.
Good to hear... this is what gives me hope for SA cricket. Despite all the nonsense and politics, opportunity is still given if you perform well.
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He was a shoe into the ODI side at that point and he probably would have replaced Cook in the test side.... he left just at the point he was getting into the 1st team.
He should have played tests already. More talented than Bavuma and done more in sunfoil and for A side. He deserved a go at the expense of useless JP.
But KP, Russow and Abbott left mainly because of quota preventing them from being given a fair chance.
That was KP`s excuse... really he wanted what he wanted when he wanted it... he had to play a few seasons of English cricket and turned into a great batsmen, if he had been patient and done that in SA he would have also made the SA team. Quota was not a major issue when he was coming into cricket. Russouw and Abbott had contracts that where paying the same sort of money that they get in English cricket and where starting to make the SA teams... would Morkel have kept Abbott out, doubt it. Would he be upset for being left out for Steyn... would Olivier have been picked in the squad if SA cricket was basing everything around quotas. I already spoke about RR. I am not saying quotas do not have an effect I am saying that it is a small part of a much bigger consideration; deciding to move your family to Eng or Aus/NZ is not just about quotas.
I'm not sure if Rossouw was qutie a shoe-in for the ODI side. He always seemed to be the player who came in when there was injury to someone else, but was always dropped again when that player came back.
He made his debut in 2014 or something. He was the 4th choice. How did he become 5th choice? Why was he left out of the WC semi?
Because Rabada came onto the scene and has been deemed better than him. Granted, Rabada may have been fast-tracked because he's black, but even if he hadn't, Abbott still would have only been fourth choice and not a test regular.
We don't know for certain. There may very well have been an element of quotas in it, but Philander had been preferred ahead of Abbott at the start of the tournament, and the general South African selection policy is for a first-choice player with a short-term injury to come back into the side when fit, so his return wasn't out of the ordinary. Philander is the better batsman, so team balance may have also played a role.
Ah, OK. I must have missed that.
And let's face it, it's not as though Rossouw is the first player ever to have been overlooked by selectors (for any country), not will he be the last. Seemingly deserving players get passed over all the time, for a myriad of reasons. So yes, in South Africa quotas can potentially be one of those reasons, they're hardly the major factor that people like to make them out to be.
KG was fast tracked because he was super talent. Steyn,ab,qdk,ect were also fast tracked...
