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Cape Town – Slightly
different circumstances, I know, but the selection of Proteas & # 39;
blunder for the final test against Sri Lanka ranks right there in my mind with
Ashes booboo highly publicized Nasser Hussain.
In 2002/03,
Hussain, then skipper of England, won a victory
first day of the series launches against the Australians on a Brisbane near Belter
… and duly announced "we will have a bowl".
The madness of
his choice was brutally exposed by the end of the game that day, with the Baggy Greens
a compelling 364 for two … a firm psychological foot in a series home
the camp won 4-1 (about as flatly as the Lankans
Proteas in shorter hostilities, much more recent).
Hussain has
a sense of humor, which helps, but the TV commentator now highly rated
I've never really been able to live it afterwards.
Having post-isolation
The South African test cricket team made a tactical error worse – even though it
had to do with the selection, rather than a decision to launch – that what they did to the
Sinhala Sports Club?
He is
doubtful, by my book.
We have not yet
know who, in particular, may have been responsible for the 'three quick and one
Spinner "makeup of bowling arsenal SA.
You would have almost
only think of one fatally, especially the unyielding person among the team
the strategists have made a mistake. (If the decision was taken by a "committee", it may be
even more disturbing?)
We can have
wait for someone's autobiography to establish the truth, even if the head coach
Ottis Gibson at least had the grace to admit that the test was moving towards a
inevitable result: "It did not prove to be the best decision."
Unfortunately,
it also sounded like a casual euphemism of some magnitude
sorry, maybe not the best choice of expression – provided by Gibson and
Captain Faf du Plessis was that the Proteas was hoping the dry surface would become
abrasive, facilitating the reverse swing (it has never materialized) for the
SA attack charged with seams as the game progressed.
We know
"Inverse" can become a useful phenomenon on the subcontinent, but
think so far and relying on the assumption more than anything
on the other – to the detriment of conditions as they clearly existed at
important beginning – the Proteas went a long way to dig their own
fell on the first day.
Have they
brazenly ignore evidence from at least the previous two SSC tests, which
only screamed deafening "CRAM YOUR SPIN RANKS"?
The two earlier
the matches were characterized not only by the weight necessarily, extremely unbalanced
bowling done by the spinners, but their prolific successes in the wickets column
as well as.
In 2017, when
India defeated Sri Lanka, Rangana Herath (a plague again at SA in the past
fortnight) seized 4/154 in the first Indian innings, and India duly responded
with the first exploits of Ravichandran Ashwin (5/69) then Ravindra
Jadeja when the & # 39; Lankans struck again (5/152).
To 2016 Sri
Lankan triumph over Australia had seen Herath bag 6/81, then 7/64, and the
Nathan Lyon, who pulls the pin on the tourists, is also prosperous (4/123 in the second
innings).
Now we are going
consider the consequences of the defeat of 199 SA on the site: unfortunately, it's something
this shows once again how the Sri Lankans got it with their
brew three spinner, and the proteas were so stupid to put their attack
the construction focuses on three quickies and just the overworked afterwards (but mostly
very impressive) Keshav Maharaj for specialist tweaking needs.
Keep in mind
also that Tabraiz Shamsi had gone to the trouble, having stolen at home between
Tests due to family bereavement, back in time for a possible selection
for Colombo; instead he was just wearing a helpless bib beyond the ropes of the border
for the second game
to be a kind of new landmark, the captain of Sri Lanka and the solitary rhythm
bowling, Suranga Lakmal, is not at all bowl in the first rounds of SA and trundled
one token two overs – call him a mini-net for him? – in the second.
Otherwise, he
was a ceaseless dose of spin, spin and more spin than the 'Lankans successfully
entrusted their trio of masters to the profession – Messrs. Herath, Perera and
Dananjaya – with all 20 Proteas wickets between them on land that
turned and dusted more and more.
Also so
It quickly appeared in the test that the speed arsenal of South Africa
have a limited value of bending the back, so three or four, just
Containment-conscious confinements became their general norm, before retiring to the
relative anonymity of deep investment positions for long periods.
Frankly,
began to look ridiculous.
Maharaj, of
of course, internally shouted for a "twin spin" clean on the other end, and there
is little doubt in my own mind that his biggest fight for the wickets in the
second innings (3/154, as opposed to record 9/129 in the first) was
partly down, accumulating depletion and unintentional phases of loss of
verve accordingly.
It was a
Royal stuff.
Proteas Fans
will be extremely anxious like that – even by far – will not happen again
soon.
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