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    *Official* WTC FINAL Australia vs South Africa 2025

    Now it's hide behind the couch time...
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    *Official* WTC FINAL Australia vs South Africa 2025

    Forgot the angst of midweek tests on duty...
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    South African Domestic Season 2025/26

    Garden Route women, aka the Motley Crew. Impressive to have 12 unions represented in a squad of 15, with only Annerie Dercksen locally produced. Only WP (2), KZN (2) and NW (2) have more than 1. Only unions not represented: Limpopo, Kei (only exists in ladies) Eastern Gauteng and KZN Inland...
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    South African Domestic Season 2025/26

    Jason Oakes who signed for them last season and didn't play a game (???) the only name missing, but had a feeling he might have quietly retired... Their biggest weakness last time they were up was batting, especially limited overs batting. Their bowling if the likes of Viljoen, Dupavillon...
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    South Africa team selection

    Peter's few overs in the first innings he was bowling with much better flight than in the T20is. Obviously, there is a trend towards flatter leg spin in those games, but it felt like compared to the domestic T20s where he was so successful, he had doubled down on the flatter, shorter strategy...
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    South African Domestic Season 2025/26

    KZN Coastal ladies'. Very young side, but even so a serious dearth of batting skill in that squad, even though it seems Andrews & Nyovane and moved on from Garden Route, they're not exactly big signings. Kiara Fisher not re-signed, but was at best their 4th spinner with Naidu's rise... 10 local...
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    South African Domestic Season 2025/26

    Quite a lean squad, wonder if Porteous will get a signing elsewhere? For those counting 6/18 locally developed (+4 KZN Inland), 5 Gauteng, 1 EP, 2 WP players... Northwood, Glenwood & Westville with two each (The Inland are two Maritzburg and two Hilton). Porteous would've added one for Kearsney...
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    South Africa team selection

    Sa A vs west indies a started, if you aren't watching the tennis...https://www.youtube.com/live/xAdUB7xO4XM?si=_JYb7rogFmkGTF01 . Sa gone with all 4 reserves. Lineup seems a batter light with Mpongwana at 6, but that's the nature of an a series. Engelbrecht, Peter and Cele all bat at xi for...
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    South African Domestic Season 2025/26

    Viljoen, South African javelin silver medalist and batting all-rounder (returning as a batter only). Also plays under married and hyphenated names making her stats a bit of a mess though.
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    South Africa team selection

    Subrayen also got a bit lucky with Simmonds late season injury as he may have been behind him for the a side, but he took his chance. Still feel he is very borderline for throwing, though not as blatant as when I first saw him as a 19 year old in a 4 game versus warriors in east london.
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    South African Domestic Season 2025/26

    WP Ladies squad, possibly lacking HPC's (last year's pair, De Leede and Botha, lack contracts), has shrunk from 17 to 13, in stark contrast to Gauteng's fat 24. Along with last year's HPC's, Saarah Smith and Kelsey Adams... In 2022, WP Ladies' had 11+5 HPC'S and 6 national contracts for 22...
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    South African Domestic Season 2025/26

    WP Men. I'd also add nothing for Bayoumy, who did little wrong. And even if he didn't look anything special, and often, when he has played in the last 2 years, he didn't bat or bowl and basically was played as a specialist fielder... Still has a CSA50 strike rate of 120 and bowling average of...
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    South African Domestic Season 2025/26

    Eastern Gauteng men's, but no HPC's listed (same as last year, I strongly suspect Marais and M Khumalo, the two new contracts, had them last year). Missing, presumed retired: Wes Marshall, Rossouw and Ngcobo. Missing, quite young to retire, but not impossibly so - Aron Visser. 6/11 locally...
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    South African Domestic Season 2025/26

    Few more squads out... Here's Mpumalanga Men's. No Kieran Kenny, not sure where he's off to if anywhere. It is pity given WP's shortage of young seamers that he's just kind of drifting around. Good for Kwena's big brother, who last played a game for Gauteng in 2022, to have an outlet. It's so...
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    South African Domestic Season 2025/26

    I think Garden Route had the youngest squad last year, and is even younger this year - three players with a birth year starting with 19... On the other hand only 4/15 local players, plus 3 EP and 1 Boland from the adjacent franchises. Unsurprisingly, the top HS's aren't in the area - KES and...
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    South African Domestic Season 2025/26

    So from last year's squad, Khwezi Gumede, Irvin Modimokoane, Lifa Ntanzi and Jarred Jardine (HPC) have lost contracts, plus Kelly Smuts and Vieira have retired..
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    South Africa team selection

    It's a farce calling second xi cricket first class. It's not a new phenomenon though. Even some ucb bowl seasons somehow are counted as first class...
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    South Africa team selection

    Hundred up for Ackerman as the rain arrives. Faster than a run a ball. Guess who also wants to break the stereotype of being a red ball specialist...
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    South Africa team selection

    Albie Morkel, Zander De Bruyn and Jon Kent are another 3. Neil Johnson played for sa a, but realised how hard it would be to be selected so went to Zim...
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    South African Domestic Season 2025/26

    Women's squad. Astonishingly big one too... Interesting to note the difference in school of origin. A lot more township school players and only Jeppe and Queens among traditional suburban schools. Razeena Manack may be from Parktown? Steyn City seems to have carved a niche for itself as a school...

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