South Africa team selection

[Stefan9]

I don't believe Rob Walter should be coach, we haven't been great at white ball cricket coming into the Champions Trophy.

You can't be bad at bilaterals and not win tournaments, all that experimentation and we still couldn't trust a second spinner in these conditions while the teams that are in the final can play 3-4 spinners at a time. You can't rely on Markram as a 6th bowler he's averaging 60 with the ball since 2023 , they took ages to bring Linde back into the international set up when he was performing week in and week out for Province , we could have put more pressure on Brevis to develop his legbreaks so atleast we had more options from batsmen rather than just Markram. Did we pick a squad that gave us flexibility based on the conditions ? It looks like we just tried to copy and paste the World Cup 2023 gameplan .

Rob Walter will stay. The target when he was appointed was 2027. He has 2 x semi's and one final. He is safe.

 

[Bahseph]

I think the gameplan would have been different if Coetzee was fit. Or Nortje. Rabada is a fine LO bowler but he isn’t on the level of his Test self. He needs the new ball but in this lineup Ngidi has to take it. Mulder is the type of bowler who will travel in LO games if there isn’t anything in the wicket for him. It’s known. We should have had the second spinner. Shamsi has to be done because there was no faith in him.

 

[Bahseph]

The thing is Mulder is probably your guy at 7 for the next WC. Not Linde.

 

[Heboric]

With all the crap he had to deal with surely Miller deserves a World Cup at home if he is willing.. In a way I feel for players like Miller and Klusener always expected to perform miracles where the other shits didnt perform.

 

[Marius]

With all the crap he had to deal with surely Miller deserves a World Cup at home if he is willing.. In a way I feel for players like Miller and Klusener always expected to perform miracles where the other shits didnt perform.

He'll be 37/38, still possibly young enough.

 

[Marius]

The thing is Mulder is probably your guy at 7 for the next WC. Not Linde.

Ja, not sure we'll play two spinners in SA either. But that's assuming Kesh is still our No 1 spinner, possible that Linde is our No 1 white ball/ODI spinner by 2027. He def deserves an extended run in the side again.

 

[Bahseph]

I wouldn’t rule it out because we have seen our pitches take spin.

 

[Kenneth Viljoen]

We have some elephants that need to be addressed aswell ..

Marco Jansen , I love the kid I think we all rate him highly but goodness me does he go missing in these big knockout games in his career so far , I think he needs professional help because he is so far off his usual level that it's simply not normal.

2023 WC SF
First ball duck
0/35 in 4.2 overs defending 213


2024 T20 WC Final
2 off 4
1/49 in 4 overs

2025 CT SF
3 off 7
0/79 in 10 overs

 

[Marius]

I wouldn’t rule it out because we have seen our pitches take spin.

Especially Dbn these days.

 

[Bahseph]

We have some elephants that need to be addressed aswell ..

Marco Jansen , I love the kid I think we all rate him highly but goodness me does he go missing in these big knockout games in his career so far , I think he needs professional help because he is so far off his usual level that it's simply not normal.

2023 WC SF
First ball duck
0/35 in 4.2 overs defending 213


2024 T20 WC Final
2 off 4
1/49 in 4 overs

2025 CT SF
3 off 7
0/79 in 10 overs

He has spoken publicly about this. I think he gets into his own head quite abit.

 

[Heboric]

Who is this Ryan Vrede oke he comes across as a big chop. Tries to cater for the tabloid crowd to hard.

 

[Stefan9]

Who is this Ryan Vrede oke he comes across as a big chop. Tries to cater for the tabloid crowd to hard.

The idiot that writes for SA cricket mag.

 

[Heboric]

The idiot that writes for SA cricket mag.

Yep that one

 

[Marius]

Who is this Ryan Vrede oke he comes across as a big chop. Tries to cater for the tabloid crowd to hard.

Complete knob, nearly as bad as Moonda.

 

[Nintendo]

We have some elephants that need to be addressed aswell ..

Marco Jansen , I love the kid I think we all rate him highly but goodness me does he go missing in these big knockout games in his career so far , I think he needs professional help because he is so far off his usual level that it's simply not normal.

2023 WC SF
First ball duck
0/35 in 4.2 overs defending 213


2024 T20 WC Final
2 off 4
1/49 in 4 overs

2025 CT SF
3 off 7
0/79 in 10 overs

Took 3fer in the t20WC semi vs AFG tbf. Still not great so far.