Can’t believe a one day specialist like Stubbs is now suddenly our test batting number 4
It’s insulting
Stubbs failed to secure a spot in the short format of the game so how the fuck does this coach think he is now our answer in tests?
Surely if you are taking the likes of van Tonder and de Swart to NZ as young bats then give them a go against India in the absence of Bavuma
Is this not obvious?
22 Wickets fall in the first day of a test??? C'mon give me a break, you'd expect that to happen in T20 not in test cricket. No-one wins, not the sponsors, players the spectators and TV coverage, test cricket is about 5 days of an engrossing battle. The curator got it hopelessly wrong and then some.
https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/india-in-south-africa-2023-24-1387592/south-africa-vs-india-2nd-test-1387604/full-scorecard
Dankie vok, forgetting about the test ................. imagine staying up all night for such a gemors.
"Over the last few years, a new building has gone up at Newlands, at the Calvin Grove End, which may affect the wind channels at the ground. There has also been a new groundsperson, Braam Mong, in place for the last two years and this is his first Test pitch. But rather than dwell on those things, South Africa's brain-trust credited India's attack for their disciplines early on, with Prince saying Siraj bowled "one of the spells of his life"
There has also been a new groundsperson, Braam Mong, in place for the last two years and this is his first Test pitch
Lets hope it's his last.
Test over in less than two days - what a fuck up test cricket has become
Is this state of affairs meant to be progression?
Gone are the days players dig in and fight it out building an innings
Instead you see stupid shots like the ones I saw Beddingham and Verreynne trying to execute along with all the other rash dismissals I did not bother watching
The fact that there has been a shift in how test cricket is played thanks to the boring T20 shit that gets shoved down our throats coupled with how shit the Proteas side is these days, has me either not watching cricket in total or switching channels when I do decide to watch.
For some time now our test side has been the worst I can recall. And by that I effectively mean our bats. We have a top 6 that don’t average much over 30, that are mostly made up of 30 or close year olds. There is just nothing to get excited about. I feel for our impressive attack having to endure such inferior batting team mates. No wonder KG at times seems to have lost his mojo. What’s the point of getting fired up only to have your bats let you down each time
I bet KG wishes he was born 10 years earlier
That Newlands wicket sure made a difference to both teams performance.
22 wickets falling in day one of a test match?
Does anyone know of another such a fall of wickets on the first day of a test?
Well Kohli showed one could bat on it as did Markram on day two
We just have a piss poor bunch of bats
Verrynne ….remember a few years back when he was the flavor of the day. This was his chance to shine, keepers get the feel of the wicket better than other bats. And he is essentially a prodder of the ball…glances, cuts.
With our limited batting talent pool we need to play our best players through all the formats. A Dussen may have helped in these tough conditions.
I had chat to Verreynne at the airport when I was in SA in March, it was at the time he had been dumped in favour of Klassen. He had been the only one that had come out of the previous series with some credit and then got inexcusably dropped.
But yeah he like the rest have failed
Rassie has always been a complete failure in the true format of the game. His poor technique has always been exposed at test level and he is now too old. He turns 35 next month and in my books always been substandard
22 Wickets fall in the first day of a test???
Wasn't it 23 wickets?
We've got a whole team of noobs...gonna take a lot of time to build a proper test team from this rabble...lots of potential, but no cohesion...poor succession planning...the ANC way...wasn't expecting anything better...
DbD even worse that I thought.
Shocking.
Well according to the records the Proteas now own the title (of losing a test) that is the shortest one in cricket history.
What a shambles.
The NZ cricket squad must be looking forward to the test series against the SA Crickets.
Kinda think these two would know better than the armchair critics.....
As soon as Proteas Test batting coach Ashwell Prince submitted his diagnosis of the Newlands pitch for the second Test between South Africa and India, it was clear that a demerit point was inevitable for the Western Province Cricket Association (WPCA).
After 23 wickets fell on day one, former Western Province batter and coach Prince said, “Some of the things I’ve seen today, I’ve never seen at Newlands before”, and he went on to say, “If both line-ups can’t bat on the surface, that says a lot”.
There it was: Prince had given a hint to the WPCA to brace themselves for a low rating of the pitch from match referee Chris Broad, the International Cricket Council (ICC) and the two captains, Dean Elgar and Rohit Sharma.
On Tuesday, the ICC rated the Newlands pitch as “unsatisfactory”, saying match Broad’s report expressed “the concerns of the match officials and … captains Elgar and Sharma, both of whom felt that the pitch was below standard”.
The main concerns were the uneven bounce and the quickness of the surface on the opening day of the Test match, which only worsened on day two, where 10 more wickets fell before the conclusion of the second session.
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…some incredibly inept batting by the Proteas. Elgar and de Zorsi out twice in a day. I can’t remember that before. But until Markram stood up in the second innings, no Protea batsmen showed any fortitude.
If this is happening at Newlands, what is going to happen to our third team in NZ?