Sri Lanka tour of South Africa, Dec 2016 - Feb 2017

[tcofran]

the Dros on the corner of Jean and Lenchin? that is right by my work...

Jip, that Dros

 

[Ho3n3r]

Since his injury, I have the sneaky suspicion that he is going to retire from test cricket to focus on shorter formats. He will play in tests during the England series and retire afterwards. I think the same might go for #.

Is there anything more that AB can do in tests? Barring moving up the lists in terms of runs, etc? He was part of the squad that was Nr 1 in the world. Beaten Oz and England away...Maybe beat Oz at home (Not sure if he achieved that).

In essence, I think he still wants an ICC trophy before he retires. His main focus appears to be CWC2019.

Above is my conspiracy theory.......

He said today that he can assure us that he isn't retiring from any form of the game.

Full interview, in case you missed it: http://www.702.co.za/articles/23935...l&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

 

[Baxteen]

Jip, that Dros

if I had moeny, I would have liked to join and meet you. I do enjoy meeting other forum members. but I am January level of broke.

 

[tcofran]

if I had moeny, I would have liked to join and meet you. I do enjoy meeting other forum members. but I am January level of broke.

same here

i have yet to inform the missus of my plans though. she will probably want to go and do something else

 

[Baxteen]

same here

i have yet to inform the missus of my plans though. she will probably want to go and do something else

at least my wife has given up. she has been to 2 ODI's with me, and she has agreed to give a T20 a fair shot and even pack a picnic basket for a test day. slowly winning her over to cricket.

 

[Ho3n3r]

at least my wife has given up. she has been to 2 ODI's with me, and she has agreed to give a T20 a fair shot and even pack a picnic basket for a test day. slowly winning her over to cricket.

I, on the other hand, have given up with my wife. She finds it very dull/boring, and every time I watch it and she feigns some interest, I need to re-explain to her what a run is.

Now I only watch it alone in the PC room with earphones on.

 

[Baxteen]

I, on the other hand, have given up with my wife. She finds it very dull/boring, and every time I watch it and she feigns some interest, I need to re-explain to her what a run is.

Now I only watch it alone in the PC room with earphones on.

I wish I could tell you how I got her to take a real interest. But she still dislikes sport in general.

 

[Ho3n3r]

I wish I could tell you how I got her to take a real interest. But she still dislikes sport in general.

Did it involve stumps and balls?

Don't worry, my wife does as well. But I don't really mind it.

 

[Baxteen]

Lorgat responds to AB

 

[stefan9]

Sorry workload is BS. The proteas just had 3 weeks of between the Aus and Sri Lanka. No footballer gets that even in the offseason.

If he wants to complain about work load quit the IPL....

 

[Baxteen]

Sorry workload is BS. The proteas just had 3 weeks of between the Aus and Sri Lanka. No footballer gets that even in the offseason.

If he wants to complain about work load quit the IPL....

a footballer who is 3 years away from retirement is not going to make a call, club football, or national football.
AB does not get that option.

and comparing Cricket to football is kinda silly. that is like comparing WWE to MMA sure they are both sports that do require a lot of skill the one is filled with faking it where the other is filled wiht real danger.

there is no need for AB to retire from IPL (but I did point out that some people will say exactly this...)

AB did not miss a game for south Africa for 10 years. then he got injured.

workload is not an excuse you say? ok so how about you work for the next 4 years, never take a holiday, and when your company closes over december, or weekends or public holidays you go work as a waiter at a local spur? but only now, at the spur you make more then your main job, and it is tax free, but you never see family or friends again.


there is no need for AB to quit the IPL.
there is a need for a 32 year old man to manage his workload, plan for the 2019 world cup, and act accordingly.
playing a test now is not smart, let him play a T20 to get back into the swing of things.
8 months is a long time, chances are AB is not going to perform at his standard in the T20, his eyes got worse his hand eye co-ordination got worse, its called getting older. and he played so much cricket it was mustle memory for him, now he needs to regain that memory, that is why he is going to play a game for northerns, then a T20, then some ODI's and then maybe, he will play tests by the england tour.

you dont expect a marathon runniner to come back from injury and run the comrads do you? why say things like managing his workload and thus hsi recovery and return is BS?

 

[WaxLyrical]

Sorry workload is BS. The proteas just had 3 weeks of between the Aus and Sri Lanka. No footballer gets that even in the offseason.

If he wants to complain about work load quit the IPL....

I agree. If anything you do more work in the shorter format through. There's a lot of blocking and leaving in tests so I don't understand the rationale of not wanting to go to NZ.

Faf said Hash will be the last SA player to make to 100 tests and the trend will continue around the world.

After 30 you start looking at the more lucrative 20 over format. You can easily play for another 10 years.

Brad Hodge lost out in the Aussie side but made a packet in the IPL, late in his career.

 

[Mike7]

We don't know the full story but if he's picking and choosing when to play then I would drop him from ALL formats.

I don't care how good you are, no one is bigger than the team.

 

[Baxteen]

go read the links please...

 

[Kelerei]

at least my wife has given up. she has been to 2 ODI's with me, and she has agreed to give a T20 a fair shot and even pack a picnic basket for a test day. slowly winning her over to cricket.

My wife and I got both sets of parents into the Members Pavillion for Day 1 of the Newlands Test. The end of day response was "when can we come again?".

 

[Mike7]

I've read it. It seems he's picking and choosing when he is available. I'm glad Lorgat called him out. If he starts playing test cricket again and he's not injured he plays or he can **** off.

AB seems a very confused individual. He wants to be test captain then a few months later he gives up the captaincy. Wants to rest and play less cricket but wants to play T20 cricket all over the world. He needs to be clear what his intentions is and not drag the team along like Abbot and Rossouw did by not telling anyone they were signing a kolpak deal.

 

[stefan9]

a footballer who is 3 years away from retirement is not going to make a call, club football, or national football.
AB does not get that option.

and comparing Cricket to football is kinda silly. that is like comparing WWE to MMA sure they are both sports that do require a lot of skill the one is filled with faking it where the other is filled wiht real danger.

there is no need for AB to retire from IPL (but I did point out that some people will say exactly this...)

AB did not miss a game for south Africa for 10 years. then he got injured.

workload is not an excuse you say? ok so how about you work for the next 4 years, never take a holiday, and when your company closes over december, or weekends or public holidays you go work as a waiter at a local spur? but only now, at the spur you make more then your main job, and it is tax free, but you never see family or friends again.


there is no need for AB to quit the IPL.
there is a need for a 32 year old man to manage his workload, plan for the 2019 world cup, and act accordingly.
playing a test now is not smart, let him play a T20 to get back into the swing of things.
8 months is a long time, chances are AB is not going to perform at his standard in the T20, his eyes got worse his hand eye co-ordination got worse, its called getting older. and he played so much cricket it was mustle memory for him, now he needs to regain that memory, that is why he is going to play a game for northerns, then a T20, then some ODI's and then maybe, he will play tests by the england tour.

you dont expect a marathon runniner to come back from injury and run the comrads do you? why say things like managing his workload and thus hsi recovery and return is BS?

Football takes out a lot more then cricket so no its perfectly fair comparison. Go and compare the amount of ground a cricket player covers per game compared to a footballer, it's no comparison.

Don't care for marathon's so all I will say footballer goes straight back into the big action. Most don't even do a training game.

So the workload is a poor excuse. If he wants even more rest ( he already has more days of per year then the average worker) then he should prove it and drop ipl and cpl. But maybe he should be know A$ rather then AB...

 

[Baxteen]

Football takes out a lot more then cricket so no its perfectly fair comparison. Go and compare the amount of ground a cricket player covers per game compared to a footballer, it's no comparison.

Don't care for marathon's so all I will say footballer goes straight back into the big action. Most don't even do a training game.

So the workload is a poor excuse. If he wants even more rest ( he already has more days of per year then the average worker) then he should prove it and drop ipl and cpl. But maybe he should be know A$ rather then AB...

you really dont get it do you?

Steyn comes back from injury and goes straight into test cricket and poof he is out until June 2017.

AB has an injury and wants to play shorter formats to get back in shape, and you say he is all about the money.

clearly you have a love for acting and diving as you somehow think footballers get actual injuries.

Football you run around for a 90 min game, that has a half time break, and plenty of stopage time. so they do 11 to 16 KM per game. from this gismodo article

sure a cricket player will not cover that, but they do it for a longer time. sure 90 min of sprinting may be worse than a day worth of running.
but this article uses GPS data to show that they do about 23 KM when in the field. yes this was a fast bowler and he will obviously run more than the wicketkeeper.
then there is the fact that they do this for 5 days.
that is why AB wants to play the shorter format first. its pretty simple logic.

how about you go tell Phillip Hughes his injury was not so bad and he can go on, while you tell Ronaldo that his fall while jogging was way worse then simply a grass burn.

sure footballers run around a lot more but there is minimal contact. a cricket player has 100% of the risks of a footballer, plus then hand injuries, concussions, shoulders poping out so violently that they snap shoulder bones. and that is not even getting into the repetative strain injuries from bowling, or the risks of facing a 150km bouncer.

your entire argument is invalid, and you are completely missing what AB is doing. he is taking a conservative approach making sure he is 100% match fit before entering the longer format of the game.

 

[Creag]

My wife and I got both sets of parents into the Members Pavillion for Day 1 of the Newlands Test. The end of day response was "when can we come again?".

Sounds like you have cool parents. I got to go to days 2 & 3 of the Wanderers test match alone. No one on my family warmed to the idea. 8 hours of cricket is too much. Really chuffed for taking time off to go. Will be way more keener the next test match in Joburg/Centurion.

 

[stefan9]

you really dont get it do you?

Steyn comes back from injury and goes straight into test cricket and poof he is out until June 2017.

AB has an injury and wants to play shorter formats to get back in shape, and you say he is all about the money.

clearly you have a love for acting and diving as you somehow think footballers get actual injuries.

Football you run around for a 90 min game, that has a half time break, and plenty of stopage time. so they do 11 to 16 KM per game. from this gismodo article

sure a cricket player will not cover that, but they do it for a longer time. sure 90 min of sprinting may be worse than a day worth of running.
but this article uses GPS data to show that they do about 23 KM when in the field. yes this was a fast bowler and he will obviously run more than the wicketkeeper.
then there is the fact that they do this for 5 days.
that is why AB wants to play the shorter format first. its pretty simple logic.

how about you go tell Phillip Hughes his injury was not so bad and he can go on, while you tell Ronaldo that his fall while jogging was way worse then simply a grass burn.

sure footballers run around a lot more but there is minimal contact. a cricket player has 100% of the risks of a footballer, plus then hand injuries, concussions, shoulders poping out so violently that they snap shoulder bones. and that is not even getting into the repetative strain injuries from bowling, or the risks of facing a 150km bouncer.

your entire argument is invalid, and you are completely missing what AB is doing. he is taking a conservative approach making sure he is 100% match fit before entering the longer format of the game.

Philip Hughes was a freak accident caused by his poor technique against the short ball.

Also your bias against football is pretty pathetic...Go and look at the injury tables across leagues more broken legs,fractured faces,broken hands per season then in cricket.

If your bias against football is too big can go and compare cricket and rugby. There also cricketers get way more rest then the rugby guys but crickets still want more.

AB is only caring about himself and not the team. If the team is number priority he would make himself available for all cricket and let the captain/coach make the call...