Flem274*
123/5
South Africa sent a very good First Class team. I would expect it to win against most FC sides in NZ conditions. I think they would thump most A teams and beat a few test teams, based on how they stood up in the second test. More fancied sides have arrived here and played worse.
I would contract Bedingham and Piedt for New Zealand tomorrow, show a lot of interest in de Swardt for our #7 role and Neil Brand and Dane Paterson would absolutely crush for any FC team. I didn't see much of the #3 because he was always batting when I was following on radio but Petersen and Hamza are probably better players than they were made to look, they just melted when faced with a couple of test bowlers.
It wasn't the real South Africa, but given the injury crises we've had during series with them (in 2017 I think I declared I would never feel bad if we got lucky against them in future after the rain game lol), I'm happy to take it as job done and hopefully we get a full strength clash between two good sides in our next series against each other.
Also, I feel obliged to defend them because I remember posting on here for years when we were ****house and had nothing to reply with when someone wanted to come and kick our puppy team for internet points. South Africa did ok here.
I would contract Bedingham and Piedt for New Zealand tomorrow, show a lot of interest in de Swardt for our #7 role and Neil Brand and Dane Paterson would absolutely crush for any FC team. I didn't see much of the #3 because he was always batting when I was following on radio but Petersen and Hamza are probably better players than they were made to look, they just melted when faced with a couple of test bowlers.
It wasn't the real South Africa, but given the injury crises we've had during series with them (in 2017 I think I declared I would never feel bad if we got lucky against them in future after the rain game lol), I'm happy to take it as job done and hopefully we get a full strength clash between two good sides in our next series against each other.
Also, I feel obliged to defend them because I remember posting on here for years when we were ****house and had nothing to reply with when someone wanted to come and kick our puppy team for internet points. South Africa did ok here.