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Recent content by Dendarii

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    90s SA vs Kohlis India vs 2000s England

    Klusener averaged 38 in tests, so he's not really a good backup.
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    South Africa team selection

    Another argument for playing our best players is that we play so few tests already and our domestic first-class season isn't very long, so continually picking our best team means that they're able to maintain their red ball skills. Even against Zimbabwe there'll be things like properly...
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    South Africa team selection

    It says "season" rather than year, which means he might be OK for the WTC final, but a big blow if he's not.
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    South Africa Domestic Season 2024/25

    CSA asked the Warriors what they thought was an appropriate punishement?! Did CSA just assume nobody would ever fail to meet the requirements and never bother to establish what the penalties would be?
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    South Africa Domestic Season 2024/25

    It can be a tricky thing to get right. Often when choosing between an all-rounder and a specialist the question is whether what you lose in the all-rounder not being quite as good as the specialist is offset by the all round ability. In the 90s we were spoilt by having Kallis and Pollock, who...
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    South Africa team selection

    It wouldn't explain the Asian batsmen not coming through, but I wonder how much rugby's success is impacting on cricket. Apart from the obvious trophies, it also seems to have got a better handle on transformation. So if you're a promising non-white sportsman who has the option of choosing...
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    South Africa Domestic Season 2024/25

    Being deducted points as a punishment is a standard practice in sports leagues and the record of the results wouldn't be changed if it was only the offending team who were affected. What makes it a loss in this case is that the Dolphins were given the points for the match. It's a good thing the...
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    South Africa Domestic Season 2024/25

    If the Dolphins hadn't been awarded any points then it could have stayed at 4 wins with a points deduction, but because they were then it definitely counts as a forfeited match and the Warriors should go down to 3 wins. But wouldn't they still be ahead of the Knights on NRR? Unless the Knights...
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    South Africa team selection

    Nqaba Peter maybe? Although he's yet to play any first-class matches, so isn't anywhere near the test side at the moment.
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    South Africa Domestic Season 2024/25

    The match in question was 16 February. How did it take them so long to realise the Warriors were short a black player?
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    South Africa team selection

    Would he have played if Nortje or Coetzee were fit? I agree that he probably shouldn't have been in the initial, but the number of bowlers we have out injured (which is a concern in itself) didn't leave us with a huge number of options. An in-form Ngidi deserves to be in the team, and they may...
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    South Africa team selection

    Absolutely. You want to take an experienced team to a tournament, but if we don't play enough ODIs then the young players aren't going to get enough experience and we end up going with older players but then facing a rebuilding problem when they retire en masse (as often happens after a major...
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    South Africa Domestic Season 2024/25

    Those guys are actually pre WW1, and that was back when we were using matting wickets, which suit spinners a lot better than fast bowlers. Also, they were early adopters of the googly, which was taught it to Schwarz by Bernard Bosanquet,, and he passed it on to his fellow South Africans. Not a...
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    South Africa team selection

    They would have been called the Springboks at the time. The Proteas name was only adopted after readmission.
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    South Africa Domestic Season 2024/25

    That sort of structure makes sense to cut down travelling, but it's not like there's any natural division from a geographical perspective. Another possibility is similar to what I think the Scottish Premier League uses (or used). Every team plays each other once and then the top four play...
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