Nintendo
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As an SA fan how do you feel about the quota system. I understand the necessity of it given SA'S history, but it feels harsh seeing young talent like brevis miss out due to skin colour.
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South Africa team selection
- Thread starter StephenZA
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I dislike it. I rather see proper development but that takes actual work. Quota system is fast and visible and keeps the politicos happy.
sins of the forefathers and lazy politicians .
Nintendo
Cricketer Of The Year
Aside from coetzee's inclusion this squad is disappointing honestly. Unsure if there's injuries or something, but surely all of van tonder, janneman, roelofson and rickelton deserve to be in this squad instead of rassie, erwee or de bruyn???
Very disappointing squad. No rickelton or janneman is just meh...Verreyne somehow retaining his spot...
Edit:Seems rickelton has an ankle injury?
www.sacricketmag.com
Edit:Seems rickelton has an ankle injury?
Coetzee gets Proteas call-up
Knights fast bowler Gerald Coetzee has been included in the Proteas squad for the three-Test tour of Australia.
Marius
International Debutant
It's terrible, harms black and white players.
StephenZA
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Not really, based on recent selections.
StephenZA
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Quotas are useless by themselves... and the failure of CSA to sort out the production line problem is easy to see.
I don't know how many of you guys watched the Rassie documentary last night, I was not gonna but got drawn in. But what is very clear from the sporting perspective is that rugby only started sorting out the problems when they got buy-in from everybody and actually listened to people wanting to transform the sport form all sides and not just playing lip-service. And CSA (even now) are in a far better position to do this if they get the right people in the right positions. But there is far to much of an old boys club feel to cricket in SA, from all sides.
Dendarii
International Debutant
From that article:Edit:Seems rickelton has an ankle injury?
Coetzee gets Proteas call-up
Knights fast bowler Gerald Coetzee has been included in the Proteas squad for the three-Test tour of Australia.
So what's going on there? I know that there have been instances of players not making South African squads because they didn't meet fitness requirements. But carrying a bit of extra weight is one thing; an ankle injury is very different.
Prince EWS
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Maybe he can bat but can't properly field atm.
You'd think the Lions would let him rest anyway though!
Dendarii
International Debutant
I watched it, and Rassie described some of the measures he put in place, which clearly have worked. It doesn't happen every match, but the Springboks can easily field a side with more than 50% of the players not white with every single player's selection being justified on rugby ability alone.
So cricket needs someone to come in and do things like that. I think they were hoping Graeme Smith could do that, but he didn't have the best relationship with the board and he also fell into the old boys club trap with his appointment of Boucher. Whether Enoch Nkwe is the right man for the job and whether he'll get the backing he needs remains to be seen, but it's shocking that cricket has lagged so far behind rugby when it's the latter that you would have thought would have had the harder time transforming.
StephenZA
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Bowling is always fine... even if Jansen is getting nose bleeds at 7. We can't play both Ngidi and Nortje anymore not with Jansen around. But the solution to that is have Mulder at 7... As for the batting need a complete new top 5 at this stage. I really really hope that the new coach and Nkwe start making big changes soon.
Everton Seymour
U19 Debutant
We don't play enough FC in South Africa , so I sympathise with the selectors in that regard, however Im not completely happy with the squad selection ..
With so many places up for grabs 16 man squad should have really been 18.
My extra two players would have been Zubayr Hamza who got a hundred vs India A
for SA A in their last 4 day series , and Wiaan Mulder whom we desperately need to come right in Test cricket.
The actual squad doesn't address the batting concerns in fact it's made it worse , Markram is going through a lean run but the guy who is replacing him averaged 19 in 12 Test matches (De Bruyn) and Markram is two years younger than De Bruyn !
I would have included Janneman Malan instead ..
There should be a cover for the openers Sarel Erwee has not made that place his own yet ...I would have taken Joshua Richards what a prospect and since he's a Highveld boy he won't be phased by the bounce in Australia.. in fact in this side would have him at first drop . Roelofsen instead of Klaasen.
With so many places up for grabs 16 man squad should have really been 18.
My extra two players would have been Zubayr Hamza who got a hundred vs India A
for SA A in their last 4 day series , and Wiaan Mulder whom we desperately need to come right in Test cricket.
The actual squad doesn't address the batting concerns in fact it's made it worse , Markram is going through a lean run but the guy who is replacing him averaged 19 in 12 Test matches (De Bruyn) and Markram is two years younger than De Bruyn !
I would have included Janneman Malan instead ..
There should be a cover for the openers Sarel Erwee has not made that place his own yet ...I would have taken Joshua Richards what a prospect and since he's a Highveld boy he won't be phased by the bounce in Australia.. in fact in this side would have him at first drop . Roelofsen instead of Klaasen.
Marius
International Debutant
Hamza is banned because he failed a drugs test. His ban only ends in the middle of December I think.
Dendarii
International Debutant
It looks like his ban ends on the 22nd, which is after the first test. So there was no way he was making the squad.