*Official* South Africa in Bangladesh: Two Test Series, 21-25 Oct, 29 Oct-2 Nov 2024

[Silver Silva]

Muthusamy should be bowling , why the team denying him a chance at a 5for after denying him a chance at a 100

 

[Stefan9]

Very good series win. Well played boys.

 

[Heboric]

Great performance

 

[StephenZA]

Great win for SA. Was not expecting such dominance considering the batting issues.

 

[Northerner]

While i applaud the Proteas for their performance i have to say Banga have been abysmal , the Saffers batsmen had so little experience of Asian conditions but looked far more comfortable than the Bangas did, as for the bowling, the figures speak for themselves.
big plusses for South Africa, de Zorzi, Stubbs, Verreynne , Mulder and Muthusamy,

 

[Aritro]

Thank you for this.

I was watching an insert on Sri Lankan cricket and they still say certain sections of the island only now coming to terms with cricket still. I was thinking you were Bengali people like those in India that had some sort of background with cricket since their times

I do appreciate the poverty perspective and the facilities as we also have faced those issues. My view on this is, people who can help need to do their best and hopefully that comes from the government but cricket has always been a class game from the beginning so it was never going to be easy.

Has English coaching helped at all? Ive always noticed your one cricket commentator with a lovely Cambridge accent

It's so interesting as you look at our early years and we had basically a bunch of Englishmen who came to live here getting into our teams and it took time for those born and bred here to forge their way into the teams & be as good. So really unless you were an Afrikaaner who was anglicised then it was mainly English-speaking people from 4 Provinces (forgetting diamond rush Kimberley guys for a short while) & Rhodesia making the SA-team so I understand the gradual progression you speak of. But you don't get the full perspective looking from the outside in so that's why I asked.

West Bengal/Kolkata is also famously football mad but cricket also had much stronger roots there. I'm not sure what you mean by English coaching?

Yeah interesting this, as when I read an old biography of Kepler Wessels, the message seemed to be that cricket was an English game from top to bottom and Wessels's was an outsider as an Afrikaaner. Yet after a certain point, Afrikaaners almost seemed to turn into the majority among the white players. What's that about.

 

[Aritro]

While i applaud the Proteas for their performance i have to say Banga have been abysmal , the Saffers batsmen had so little experience of Asian conditions but looked far more comfortable than the Bangas did, as for the bowling, the figures speak for themselves.
big plusses for South Africa, de Zorzi, Stubbs, Verreynne , Mulder and Muthusamy,

Our players are a disgrace and they should all quit, and then punch themselves in the face.

 

[SeamUp]

Given ourselves a serious chance of the final now. Credit to Conrad and the players.

 

[StephenZA]

Given ourselves a serious chance of the final now. Credit to Conrad and the players.

It would be wild if SA made the final. But we need to see what happens first at home. Random losses are still a common occurrence for SA.

 

[Bahseph]

Didn't expect it to go down this way but great series win! I'm beginning to buy into Conrad more and more. Don't always agree with his decisions or comments but I see where he is coming from.

 

[SeamUp]

West Bengal/Kolkata is also famously football mad but cricket also had much stronger roots there. I'm not sure what you mean by English coaching?

Yeah interesting this, as when I read an old biography of Kepler Wessels, the message seemed to be that cricket was an English game from top to bottom and Wessels's was an outsider as an Afrikaaner. Yet after a certain point, Afrikaaners almost seemed to turn into the majority among the white players. What's that about.

In those early year loads of English professionals would come to SA & coach our schools and clubs. Helping form the foundation for our cricket. Carried on till the 90s at least that there were a few around. Guys like Herbie Taylor and Faulkner coached in England and came back here to coach as well.

I think there are more white Afrikaans speaking people in SA & people like Wessels and the great Free State side of the late 80s and 90s helped open doors. Titans (Pretoria) also become a dominant producer of players when they weren't considered that before and have a high Afrikaans population. Would also probably say Durban & East London have slowed down producing players, two traditional English-speaking areas.

 

[Kenneth Viljoen]

Brilliant performance , absolutely exceeded expectations..When I saw Bangladesh whitewash Pakistan I thought a drawn series would be a good result but these boys smashed it 2-0 ..

Now with Rabada at his peak, Jansen and Coetzee returning, the pace battery is ready to be unleashed at home with SA batters that have runs it's cause for optimism

Edit : Can't get too carried away !

 

[StephenZA]

Didn't expect it to go down this way but great series win! I'm beginning to buy into Conrad more and more. Don't always agree with his decisions or comments but I see where he is coming from.

If you look at the team though it's pretty much what we've been asking for on the batting front. It's just taken a long time to get there. Longer than it probably should have.

 

[Stefan9]

Given ourselves a serious chance of the final now. Credit to Conrad and the players.

I would be more confident if we were playing Sri Lanka at wanderers and Bloem. Have enough venues that we should have avoided pe & Durban vs them.

 

[Heboric]

I would be more confident if we were playing Sri Lanka at wanderers and Bloem. Have enough venues that we should have avoided pe & Durban vs them.

Yep those two venues give me the eeeby jeebies. More Durban because of the weather and the curse it brings on the team.