Cricket: South Africa tour of Pakistan 2021

[Creag]

The tour summary per Espn CricInfo:

 

[Creag]

If I missed the thread, sorry. I did look back through the Sports threads for it.

 

[Creag]

Newsdeck: Cricket-Relaxed South Africa happy with security arrangements in Pakistan

Jan 18 (Reuters) - Quinton de Kock has lauded the security arrangements laid out for South Africa on their first tour of Pakistan in 14 years and says the players are "a lot calmer" about the tour now they have arrived in the country and seen the measures first-hand.

www.dailymaverick.co.za

 

[WaxLyrical]

Not to be negative but how long before covid sends the team back to SA to quarantine.

 

[Creag]

South Africa squad: Quinton de Kock (capt & wk), Temba Bavuma, Aiden Markram, Faf du Plessis, Dean Elgar, Kagiso Rabada, Dwaine Pretorius, Keshav Maharaj, Lungi Ngidi, Rassie van der Dussen, Anrich Nortje, Wiaan Mulder, Lutho Sipamla, Beuran Hendricks, Kyle Verreynne, Sarel Erwee, Keegan Petersen, Tabraiz Shamsi, George Linde, Daryn Dupavillon, Marco Jansen.

Jansen replaces Baartman as South Africa fly to Pakistan

A 21-member squad, with nine fast bowling options, is set to depart tonight

www.espncricinfo.com

 

[Creag]

Pakistan Test squad Abid Ali, Abdullah Shafique, Imran Butt, Azhar Ali, Babar Azam (c), Fawad Alam, Kamran Ghulam, Salman Ali Agha, Saud Shakeel, Faheem Ashraf, Mohammad Nawaz, Mohammad Rizwan, Sarfaraz Ahmed, Nauman Ali, Sajid Khan, Yasir Shah, Haris Rauf, Hasan Ali, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Tabish Khan

Shan Masood, Mohammad Abbas, Haris Sohail dropped from Pakistan Test squad

Haris Rauf one of several new faces as new chief selector Mohammad Wasim names his first squad

www.espncricinfo.com

 

[JohnStarr]

@Artanis thanks for this!!!

 

[sand_man]

I find this rather distasteful...

Proteas' Indian performance analyst denied visa for Pakistan series

Prasanna Agoram, who has been a member of Proteas' think-tank for the past 11 years, has been denied a visa for their tour of Pakistan.

www.thesouthafrican.com

 

[Agent_Smith]

I find this rather distasteful...

Proteas' Indian performance analyst denied visa for Pakistan series

Prasanna Agoram, who has been a member of Proteas' think-tank for the past 11 years, has been denied a visa for their tour of Pakistan.

www.thesouthafrican.com

Yeah, that is shocking. So much for sport ascending political bs...

 

[dunkyd]

Proteas ? They still play cricket ? Thought they just bent knees.....

 

[pinball wizard]

I find this rather distasteful...

Will pale in the distaste rankings when the SA team commence with their fist waving, crotch grabbing political crap.

 

[JohnStarr]

Proteas ? They still play cricket ? Thought they just bent knees.....

IKR, like most other teams have.

 

[sand_man]

Will pale in the distaste rankings when the SA team commence with their fist waving, crotch grabbing political crap.

Yeah, the hypocrisy is mind blowing! One of their own is denied a visa cause he's Indian yet we stand for anti racism? Ironic isn't it?

 

[Polymathic]

Oooh boy

 

[yebocan]

Oooh boy

...mom remembered melrose...

 

[WaxLyrical]

I find this rather distasteful...

Proteas' Indian performance analyst denied visa for Pakistan series

Prasanna Agoram, who has been a member of Proteas' think-tank for the past 11 years, has been denied a visa for their tour of Pakistan.

www.thesouthafrican.com

According to this article his contract expired and that's the reason and not security. He even confirms his departure with a farewell tweet.

Pak vs SA: Why did Indian analyst not come to Pakistan with South African team?

The clarification comes amid circulating reports that Prasanna Agoram was unable to join his team due to safety protocols

www.thenews.com.pk

Strange.

 

[stefan9]

Not to be negative but how long before covid sends the team back to SA to quarantine.

Cricketers are exempt. Ask Sri Lanka how everyone from the UK is banned from traveling there except the English cricketers.

 

[stefan9]

Will be interesting what team is selected for the first test. Historically pakistan doesn't spin as much as india,sri lanka and bangladesh. Generally very good batting wickets with spin on the last day. Reverse swing has tended to be the main weapon but how much you can now get with the new covid regulations is up for debate.

KG will be back in for sipamla. Then its a decision between playing both ngidi and nortje or picking a spinner for one.

 

[JohnStarr]

Will be interesting what team is selected for the first test. Historically pakistan doesn't spin as much as india,sri lanka and bangladesh. Generally very good batting wickets with spin on the last day. Reverse swing has tended to be the main weapon but how much you can now get with the new covid regulations is up for debate.

KG will be back in for sipamla. Then its a decision between playing both ngidi and nortje or picking a spinner for one.

We already have Maharaj so don't need another spinner. Markram and Elgar can do a part-time role if needed.
No need to drop either Ngidi or Nortje. Pick them both.

 

[GaskooN]

We already have Maharaj so don't need another spinner. Markram and Elgar can do a part-time role if needed.
No need to drop either Ngidi or Nortje. Pick them both.

The thing is, can we trust part-time spin to do a good job vs Pakistani batsmen in their own backyard? What if we drop mulder for linde? I know that's crazy considering how well mulder did vs Sri Lanka. I'd rather then bolster the batting and drop nortje then? Most importantly though, we must win the toss and bat first because what I've read is that the pitch turns a lot from day 4 onwards.