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South Africa team selection
- Thread starter StephenZA
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Prince EWS
Global Moderator
I knew it started with P. I reckon best guess probably would've been Pieter lol.
Magrat Garlick
Global Moderator
Pite
StephenZA
Hall of Fame Member
Probably why he is known as Wiaan... to many Pieters (and Willem's and Adriaan's). So used first letters from second name and last letters from 3rd name... not confusing at all!!
honestbharani
Whatever it takes!!!
Sure Zephen...
https://www.espncricinfo.com/player/ruan-de-swardt-698321 and Jason smith could do jobs at 6 or 7 and 5th bowler at least deserve a chance.
Rasimione
U19 Captain
No. They are serviceable at best
andruid
Cricketer Of The Year
The UK Guardian really pontificating with this. Even more than usual
www.theguardian.com
South African imbalance in spotlight with dramatic batting improvement needed | Daniel Gallan
The tourists’ ineptitude with the bat is in stark contrast to the potency of their bowling although the MCG pitch could help reduce the disparity
www.theguardian.com
Ruan is only 24 bats top 4 and can do a 5th bowler option pretty sure besides mulder he could do a job batting 5 or 6 and bowling 5th. They would bring balance to having 7 proper batsmen and 5 bowlers.
Mulder at 6 and kyle at 7 and jansen 8, 9 maharaj,10 rabada,11 nortjie more batting depth, mulder has never been given like 10 games in a row 15-20 innings, his bowler has been good and ngidi and nortjie can rotate depending on pitch.
StephenZA
Hall of Fame Member
Where did he have a long run of games?
StephenZA
Hall of Fame Member
No he has never had more than 2 tests in a row. Mostly one test a series. It been pathetic the way he has been treated.
He has problems as a batsmen but that’s always true. Needs the time to gain experience and develop into hopefully a wc allrounder.
Oh right apologies I thought he had a little bit of a run of games.
I wonder if Gibson did him a disserve by picking at 19 straight out of under 19s?.....
19 spread over like 4 or 5 years.
Debut in feb 2019