The Proteas - Our Team!

stepper said:
I can't wait for the England series. Captain Biff will be retiring another English captain. Hussain and Vaughn have fallen in two previous tours, Strauss its your turn.

#Football-like chant
"Biff retires opposition captains when he wants to"
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I guess I saw it coming...but KP's situation helped even though Strauss denies it.
 
The decision to not play a proper wicket keeper in the England tests coming back to haunt us...

South Africa manager Mohammed Moosajee says the Titans' wicketkeeper-batsman had a recurrence of both his lower back and left ankle problems at the ICC World Twenty20 in Sri Lanka and would have returned home if it wasn't a major tournament
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http://www.sport24.co.za/Cricket/AB-ruled-out-of-CLT20-20121004
 
MickeyD said:
It is time to bring in a youngster.

Quinton de Kock (Highveld Lions) is my choice.
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Been saying it for a while! The sooner he gets the experience, the sooner we'll have a stable team. I've had it with all these experiments.
 
AB has been complaining that he doesn't want to keep because of his back issues. All the commentators saying that AB should man'up of sorts and keep as it is best for the team. No point if he only plays 50% of the games.
 
Rory Kleinveldt, the Cape Cobras allrounder, has replaced Lonwabo Tsotsobe in South Africa's Test squad for the tour of Australia.

Squad: Graeme Smith (capt), Hashim Amla, AB de Villiers, JP Duminy, Faf du Plessis, Imran Tahir, Jacques Kallis, Rory Kleinveldt, Morne Morkel, Alviro Petersen, Robbie Peterson, Vernon Philander, Jacques Rudolph, Dale Steyn, Thami Tsolekile
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Thami should get a tour or two to prove himself, otherwise it's time to move on to de Kock. He's too old and we can't afford to give him too many chances if he's not a long term option.
 
Mike Hoxbig said:
Thami should get a tour or two to prove himself, otherwise it's time to move on to de Kock. He's too old and we can't afford to give him too many chances if he's not a long term option.
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Agree with you. But, to give time to proof himself against Aus first-up? Might be considered a bit harsh, but i guess it is a case of sink or swim.
Maybe decide that Thami is 1st choice against your top nations, and play de Kock against your Zims / Bangladesh / etc. for the next 2/3 years. By the time if Thami is 34/35, he can gracefully move over for de Kock who should be more experienced and familiar with the set-up.
 
Badprop_za said:
Agree with you. But, to give time to proof himself against Aus first-up? Might be considered a bit harsh, but i guess it is a case of sink or swim.
Maybe decide that Thami is 1st choice against your top nations, and play de Kock against your Zims / Bangladesh / etc. for the next 2/3 years. By the time if Thami is 34/35, he can gracefully move over for de Kock who should be more experienced and familiar with the set-up.
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Seeing as Thami has been included, he should play in the test, even more so if AB is already not 100%.

I also think that de Kock should tour with SA A as keeper and learn the ropes so that in a year or two he can be given a shot in a dead rubber.
 
I think De Kock might also think about switching franchises. Playing in a team where Tsolekile is the first choice keeper won't build selector's confidence in his keeping
 
stepper said:
I guess I saw it coming...but KP's situation helped even though Strauss denies it.
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As I suspected the ECB are now wiping their noses with KP's jockstrap and he's expected to be included for the tour of India.
Strauss made a meal of the sms debacle, promptly fusked off and left English cricket high and dry.
 
Sri Lanka Cricket has requested a postponement of the three-Test home series against South Africa, scheduled for July and August next year, until 2014 or later, in order accommodate a triangular one-day series. That tri-series, involving West Indies and India, is itself a rescheduled fixture, after Sri Lanka's two Tests in the West Indies that clashed with the end of the IPL were culled from the fixtures list.

Instead of touring the West Indies before the Champions Trophy in June, the tri-series will now take place after the Champions Trophy, meaning there is not enough time to play the Tests against South Africa before the SLPL is set to begin. CSA has said it is reviewing SLC's request, but they will have to weigh up broadcasters' interests before taking their decision.

"We are not keen on cancelling Tests," CSA acting chief executive Jacques Faul said. "It goes through a process where we send it to the team management and then the logistics manager. We try to help other countries as much as we can but they will have to give reasons for wanting no Tests. When you cancel Tests, you've got to be careful because there are broadcasting issues."

The request to change the tour programme is a continuation of the SLC's recent trend of culling Tests from Sri Lanka's schedule. In addition to the Tests in the West Indies that have been scrapped, two Tests against India in July this year became five ODIs, and a Twenty20 and the three Tests scheduled for England in March became a two-Test series as the IPL approached.

SLC CEO Ajit Jayasekara said the SLPL "always had a window" in Sri Lanka's international schedule, and was not the reason SLC has requested the Tests to be rescheduled. According to the Future Tours Programme, South Africa's tour, which included five ODIs and three Twenty20s, would have begun early in July and ended late in August. The SLPL is likely to begin in early August.

While the dates of the Test series are as yet unclear, the two boards have agreed to play five ODIs and two of the three Twenty20s scheduled for the tour. Jayasekara said that given Sri Lanka will have recently played the Champions Trophy and the tri-series, it would be more beneficial for the team to play more limited-overs cricket, instead of doing away with the limited-overs matches to make way for Tests. If the three Tests are postponed, Sri Lanka only have four Tests scheduled between January and December in 2013, against Bangladesh and Zimbabwe.

South Africa last toured Sri Lanka in 2006 when they played two Tests; the rest of the tour was cancelled after the visitors pulled out due to security reasons.
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I hope CSA refuse the request
 
32 Year old keeper went from released by a franchise sitting behind a desk as a clerk to SA contract....
 
I thought with the new CSA we'd get some more test cricket. Seems I was wrong.
 
McT said:
Entirely agree. Test cricket is far more important than the hit and giggle stuff.
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seems like CSA agreed to the request.
Cricket South Africa have agreed to a request from the Sri Lanka board and postponed their Test series scheduled for next year until the middle of 2015. Jacques Faul, CSA's acting chief executive, said the change would give South Africa's players an opportunity for rest after the Champions Trophy, which takes place in England next June.

Sri Lanka Cricket had asked for the three home Tests, due to have been played at some point in July and August 2013, to be moved in order to accommodate a one-day tri-series featuring West Indies and India. The rearrangement also averts South Africa's visit from clashing with the Sri Lanka Premier League, which is likely to begin in early August.

CSA said it was still committed to playing five ODIs and three T20 internationals in Sri Lanka next year, as mandated by the Future Tours Programme (FTP). The Tests have now been put back until June 2015.

"We have acceded to the request for two reasons," Faul said. "In the first place we have a very good relationship with Sri Lanka Cricket and we have done our best to assist them. In the second place it actually works out quite well for the Proteas in handling their workload effectively.

"Had we proceeded with the Test series in Sri Lanka next year it would have meant that the Proteas would have played 11 Test matches between July 2013 and March 2014. In addition they would have had no break between the start of the ICC Champions Trophy [in June 2013] and the end of the ICC World T20 in Bangladesh in April, 2014. The rescheduling of the Test series means that the Proteas will now have a three-week break between the Champions Trophy and the limited-overs series in Sri Lanka."

"The matter has been discussed with the Proteas team management as well and it has been agreed that this is the best way forward both for CSA and Sri Lanka Cricket. The Proteas will now undertake their Test tour of Sri Lanka in June 2015, before they move on to Bangladesh in July as part of the ICC Future Tours Programme.

"I would like to stress that there was never ever any question of the Test series against Sri Lanka not happening. The status of Test cricket is paramount as far as we are concerned. We retain the same number of Tests as far as the FTP is concerned until 2019-2020."

The agreement means that after completing their tour of Australia, which includes three Tests, Sri Lanka have only four Test matches - two against Bangladesh and two against Zimbabwe - slated between January and December next year. A two-Test series against West Indies that would have potentially clashed with the 2013 IPL was scrapped last month.
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wallsend said:
seems like CSA agreed to the request.
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All I can say is, Meh! :mad:

MexicanStandoff said:
Dale Steyn has just signed up to play in Australia. We going to struggle to get players away from the lure of the dollar.
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While I can't blame him, it is quite sad. Just not sure how much cricket he'll play there without missing international fixtures.
 
wallsend said:
seems like CSA agreed to the request.
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Wtf? IIRC SA players played the least cricket of all the test playing nations in the last 3-4 years :mad: We need more rest my ass.

McT said:
All I can say is, Meh! :mad:

While I can't blame him, it is quite sad. Just not sure how much cricket he'll play there without missing international fixtures.
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+1. Hope he does not shorten his international career by over doing it.
 
Steyn is only contracted for the first match of the big bash series.
 
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