And it has been a 'decent' debut for Makhaya so far, in the week that he was dropped by the Proteas……Ten overs, five maidens, five wickets for nine runs.
Has a terrible action (kinda like Andre Nel's but ten times worse) and generates hardly any pace. Robin Jackman said if someone worked on his action, given that his a tall, muscular lad he would be far more potent and less likely to be on the surgeons table. Rusty played for RSA A against Sri Lanka A just recently and didn't have a good series. His stats are also boasted from playing lots of provincial cricket for Eastern Province.
Johan Louw’s turn this week, his brother is getting married and he will miss the Dolphins trip to Paarl.
According to Ray White, Robbie P now has a doosra like fellow Warriors spinner, Johan Botha, and the reason his getting wickets because no one can pick it...White also said that Robbie P still has no accuracy due to his poor action but his performance was highly unusual considering the Jo'Burg wicket which he played on two weeks was made for pace bowlers not finger spinners.Robbie P currently has a fifer for the Warriors. Oh dear.
I wonder if theres any change to his action? E.g. Elbow?
No idea but its interesting to hear that Robbie P has developed such a delivery. Wonder if it is as bad as the one 'bowled' by Botha...
The Titans will slightly fortunate that Steyn was ruled out with sinusitis but AB is playing and because they have issues with fielding four black players, Imran Tahir and Paul Harris were dropped. Good thing for the Titans is that the first day was watched out and it’s a greenish wicket so the spinners wouldn’t have been greatly required.
The former Transvaal franchises struggle enough with fielding ‘black’ cricketers at the moment, another side will only worsen the situation. Border and Griqualand West are apparently getting franchise status next year, both sides to whom have produced a plethora of current SuperSport black cricketers.