by sussexpob » Fri Jan 29, 2021 3:45 pm
The fact is South Africa cannot bat to save their lives. Since 2018, only Elgar has an average that is anywhere near test class, but at 37 in that period, its a pretty tragic low bar. The rest of the top 6-7 cannot buy runs regularly and are all some way off acceptable returns. They are in that sort of troublesome loop where no one justifies their position, but no one is knocking on the door given the opportunity; so what do you do? Rip the plan to shreds and burn it, or accept the players you have are probably the best you have and just stay in a stasis of being uncompetitive whenever your opposition scores anything par or above?
The selectors dont help because they have tried to supplement bits and pieces into the bowling attack to add batting depth, and all its really done is get a few subpar bowlers who get dropped after 2 tests being mixed into every team. They then gave players like TB De Bruyn quite a lot of tests when I think it was clear after one over watching him, he could barely hold a bat.
When you see someone who looks that obviously rubbish coming out of the domestic scene with massive runs, I guess you realise the depth of the problem. A very sad era for South African cricket, because the quality has just been gutted in a very short time. Kuhn was another that springs to mind who looked like a technical trainwreck, and Hamza another.
They really need a radical overhaul of the structure there (which I think is coming in the form of an extended competition). Atm its hard to see how they can remain competitive unless Rabada bowls teams out.
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