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**Official** South Africa in Australia T20s/ODIs Tour 2025
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Nintendo
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Bit harsh. When we've been at full strength we've been fine. Made semis at the champions trophy and took India closer than India did. Difference is now we don't have warner, smith or Maxwell and head looks like he's been found out a bit.
Spark
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I mean yeah a lot of the "problem" is that we don't take the format seriously outside of tournament play and thus play junk teams. Witness the ghost of Aaron Hardie somehow still being carted around every game.
Kenneth Viljoen
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Ngidi has really stood up in this series, needed a big performance and delivered, should have had Green aswell
Burgey
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WCs the only things which count tbh
GRAB
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With Rabada not there, he obviously felt the necessity to take charge...
morgieb
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That's the thing, our WC squad in 2023 was pretty old IIRC. We've hit the rebuild hard and haven't really found any top-tier ODI players. A few guys look decent but none look like a future superstar.
Spikey
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He should have moved to NSW when I told him to
Kenneth Viljoen
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Pretty cool that we are the only team that has a positive H2H record against Australia. Such is their dominance in this format.
Kenneth Viljoen
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It's Moises Henriques all over again hey ?
Starfighter
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He's regressed because they've stuffed him into the ODI/T20I teams at the time he was getting established at first class level, with the result that his technique and gameplay has suffered from lack of FC game time. Injuries haven't helped either.
It frustrates that either whims or BBL seem to be the only criteria for ODI selection. With the proven players slowly departing I don't think we know who our best potential replacements are due to so little respect being given to player development in the format.
Paranoid Kendroid
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Ayo, who gave the script to Firdose in advance?
TheJediBrah
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The regression is true, but tbh I don't think he was ever that good. He played some excellent Shield knocks but in white-ball cricket he shouldn't have even been in the WA first XI based on his returns.
He should never have been anywhere near a white-ball Australian squad at any time. As back up all-rounder in a touring Test squad at best, but even as of last year he was behind all of Green, Marsh and Webster.
Kenneth Viljoen
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She edited and updated the article , still got it wrong though , Stubbs didn't shine in the game , yes he made 78 but his fielding on another day would have cost us the game like it did when he dropped Tim David in the T20 series.
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I think Hardie had more going for him tbh. He was putting up god Shield numbers back then but as has been noted, he’s been shoe horned into LO sides and has gone backwards at a rate of knots. I think he’s one we’ve ****ed up royally