Bahseph
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Yes on de Zorzi.
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South Africa team selection
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Heboric
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Neil Brand to lead new-look Proteas side for New Zealand Test tour | Sport
Cricket South Africa named a completely new-look Proteas side that will take on New Zealand in February's two-match Test series tour.
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Dendarii
International Debutant
I'm not sure how many other options for captain there may have been. Brand also offers a spin option which may have helped his case.
Dendarii
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I think De Swardt is the better option as he's definitely the better bat and we could do with the extra bowler. But even though the transformation numbers are measured over the entire season, De Zorzi not being there may open the door for Zondo...
Dendarii
International Debutant
It appears as though he was part of the Pretoria Capitals squad in the SA20 but never played, and hasn't been retained for the upcoming season.
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This is incredibly sad and concerningNeil Brand to lead new-look Proteas side for New Zealand Test tour | Sport
Cricket South Africa named a completely new-look Proteas side that will take on New Zealand in February's two-match Test series tour.
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Undoubtedly. However some of this squad have decent first class records and Paterson and Bedingham have impressed in county cricket. From an English perspective, the only comparison I can think of was the team for the WI tour in 1990 and that went much better than might have been expected so you never know. Good luck to them.
Fuller Pilch
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So, do you prefer:
"Brand-new captain", or "Brand, new captain"?
"Brand-new captain", or "Brand, new captain"?
honestbharani
Whatever it takes!!!
New Brand captain.
Dendarii
International Debutant
When would they have played this extra test?
ataraxia
International Coach
The point is that you can make the profits without relying on a full-strength SA20. The extra test would what, be a week less of full-strength SA20 sides?
Dendarii
International Debutant
They can't do that. The agreement that CSA have with the SA20 teams is that all the top players will be available.
Bahseph
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I don't agree with the weakened squad, but I don't think CSA have any other means of generating the money the SA20 does. And these franchise owners want the players they payed millions for to be available. CSA has no bargaining power here. It is their fault due to years of mismanagement though. They did try to move the NZ Tests. I'd love to know what Shukri Conrad thinks because he is a proud man who clearly loves Test cricket.
Dendarii
International Debutant
To be fair to CSA, I don't any of those in charge now were responsible for that mismanagement, so it's a bit of a case of trying to repair the damage that was done.
But even without the mismanagement, I think something like the SA20 may still have been necessary. CSA loses money in years which the big 3 don't tour South Africa, and they need an alternative to hoping to make up that loss when those tours do happen.