EXCLUSIVE: “World Cricket needs South Africa to be strong“ – Nasser Hussain || England legend
@nassercricket
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@Tim32_cricket
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Just a reminder SA A v India A Series starts tomorrow at 10am
All 3 games will be live streamed on the Supersport YouTube Channel with live commentary from
@1worldsr
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SA20 stats
Six sold out matches including the final and 74% of tickets sold across all matches.
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Cumulative viewership of 8.96m on SuperSport Premium
46% female viewership
Sarel spent 6 years playing semi pro cricket before he got his FC debut in 2014 and there were many ups and downs along the way
Though in his last 3 seasons he has averaged 53, 47 and 86 he has done the hard work
He fully deserves this maiden Test hundred
Well done
@sjerwee
Vernon Philander ends his international career with a demerit point, a fine, a hamstring injury and a 3 - 1 series loss.
Cricket is a cruel sport sometimes
#SAvENG
Despite my criticism of India of which I have a lot. Virat Kohli has been a model professional on and off the field since the SA tour. Speaks honestly and frankly no matter what the result. If a kid growing up wants a role model he is your man.
#ENGvIND
#RespectKohli
On its own the Quinton De Kock retirement from Test Cricket is a consequence of the format becoming less important and the white ball stuff being the money maker
Put together with how CSA have treated Faf,Tahir & Morris this year it is hard not to think there is more to it...
In very difficult conditions Babar Azam is showing us why he is Pakistan's best batsman. Always knew he was a world class player and he is now showing it. Will be their leading run scorer of the series.
#SAvPAK
NEWS JUST IN:
Graeme Smith has officially been appointed as Director of Cricket by Cricket South Africa for a initial 2 year period until the end of March 2022
Smith said he was delighted to stay on board as part of the team to take South African cricket forward.
I think we all must love Faf Du Plessis that little bit more now.
He turned down a Kolpak contract from Notts at the age of 21.
That's a full 6 years before he made is debut for South Africa.
#Respect
SA are considering a short tour to Pakistan at the end of March with a possibility that 3 T20s could be played.
SA last toured Pakistan in 2007
This would be good news for Pakistan and good also for SA with the T20 World Cup later in the year
Massive news for SA Cricket:
@OfficialCSA
have announced the franchise system will be no more come the 2022 season. They will re introduce the provincial cricket system with 12 teams competing.
Dean Elgar didn't always get the credit he deserves, but he will be missed in the Test side
His way of playing is a dying breed. However, only Gibbs, Cullinan, Smith. G. Kirsten, Amla, Kallis & De Villiers have more hundreds than him
Hardwork over natural talent was 🔑
#SAvIND
Proteas Press Conference
•Aiden will open
•Nobody is injured
•Klaasen will keep
•Maroney & Mpitsang released
•Skukri believes in having all rounders, Sen, Mulder, Jansen
•also has good relationship with Temba
•Coetzee is ahead of Lungi
#SAvWI
The very fact that people are so hot under the collar with Michael Holding and Ebony Rainsford-Brent for telling the truth tells us just how out of sync with reality we really are.
As for Boeta Dippenar and Pat Symcox well I have no words...
I see some are putting the Proteas poor batting performance in the Test down to a "rebuilding phase"
It's an awfully long rebuilding phase if Elgar debuted in 2012, QDK and Temba in 2014, Markram in 2017 and Rassie in 2019
The truth is alot harder to admit
#SAvIND
Things
#ProteaFire
need after the World Cup
New coach
New batting coach
New fielding coach
A psychologist
Two new opening batsmen (QDK batting at 6)
New number 3
New number 5
A fit Rabada, Ngidi, Steyn and Nortje
Another round of Momentum One Day Cup fixtures and another round where we can't watch a ball unless we are actually at the ground
But we can watch WWE on repeat, La Liga on repeat, Netball on repeat, SA women's Proteas on repeat and Super Rugby on repeat
Happy days
#MODC
Pakistan get exactly what they deserve from Ramiz Raja, the groundsman with their appalling pitches to the defensive way the home team played throughout the series
Only one team wanted to win the series and Aus fully deserve it. Huge performance on the final day
#AUSvsPAK
SA are scheduled to play India in India in five T20s in June.
If they have learned anything from the World Cup last year Tristan Stubbs should be in that squad
#csat20challenge
Marco Jansen was bowling to Virat Kohli and the Indian team as a net bowler in Joburg in 2018. He received high praise from Virat and Rahul Dravid.
In a few short weeks he will be sampling what the biggest T20 competition in the world has to offer
#IPLAuction2021
Wiaan Mulder in all competitions for Leicestershire since the 11th of July
235*, 156, 59, 71*, 116*, 27, 23, 68, 56*
It's great to see him doing so well
Zimbabwe Cricket was in the news an awful lot in 2019 and for all the wrong reasons.
6 days into 2020 and Zimbabwe U19 beating New Zealand and SA U19 in the same week is a pretty remarkable story even without the problems they had last year
Problems in our ODI team
Can't play spin
Can't go into 4th gear
Over reliance on De Kock and Faf
Can't bowl at the death
Fielding too often poor
Not enough back up quality in our domestic competition
Often start games too slowly
Still playing 2014 ODI cricket
#CWC19
Since going over to Durham with a couple of returns home for Cobras/WP in between David Bedingham has scored 3683 First Class runs with an average of 53.3 with 11 hundreds
A deserved Proteas call-up arrives
#SAvIND
Lost for words to describe that win by the Proteas. A potential turning point for the side achieved with all the attributes that Boucher had as a player
Safe to say if Dean Elgar had not survived last night it would not have happened. A real gem from the captain
#SAvIND
Thanks very much for the selfie
@iramizraja
and for putting up for my lack of knowledge of how to take a proper selfie haha... You are a legend.
#SAvPAK
So Aiden Markram is coming home from his stint with Hampshire after scoring 581 runs in 10 matches. Important to note his home ground for the last few weeks is where SA will play India and the WI in the World Cup. Good practice I say...
I am thinking of doing a Twitter Space after each days play of the First SA v India Test at Centurion.
Would anyone be interested in joining/listening ?
#SAvIND
To those who have been following him for the last few years, it is not surprising Bedingham has taken to Test Cricket so well
Technically, he is the best batter in the country, but to do it with this pressure is impressive
More hundreds to come from him
#NZvSA
Ben Stokes is a match winner and a great Test cricketer.
A man for when the chips are down
A man with huge character
A man who is twice as good as his stats show
A man any side would be lucky to have
A blockbuster player who puts bums on seats
A man we should respect
So CSA Board issue a directive for all Proteas players to "take the knee"
Bavuma wins the toss and chooses to bowl
Quinton De Kock makes himself unavailable for "person reasons"
It's been a busy morning for the Proteas in a must win game you feel
Earlier today, Stiaan Van Zyl called time on his career, which began in 2006
It saw him play 12 Test matches
FC - 12576 runs @ 42.48
List A - 3797 @ 35.48
T20 - 1509 @ 25.57
He also picked up 100 wkts across the formats
A stellar career from a stalwart of SA cricket
Bangladesh coaching setup when the series starts this Friday
Head Coach: Russell Domingo
Bowling Coach: Allan Donald
Power hitting Coach: Albie Morkel
We like to export our goods.
#SAvBAN
Harmer and Maharaj together work people. Not one or the other. Both have bowled well today.
You can be pleasantly surprised at how beautifully Harmer has bowled today without picking one or the other.
Both are quality spinners, today it is Harmer's day.
#SAvBAN
I'll keep it to a minimum.
SA are not unlucky, they got exactly what they deserve. Played conservatively with the bat throughout the tournament and that game v Bangladesh a perfect example
Beating current and possible new T20 Champions means little
#T20WorldCup
We saw two exceptional innings from Dean Elgar and Quinton De Kock today and both deserve huge praise for the way they played in not allowing Ashwin and Jadeja and settle, but also new batting coach Amol Muzumdar should take a lot of credit for the work he has done
#INDvsSA
Pat Cummins is sold for over $3 million Aus dollars which is a record for an overseas player in the IPL history and yet Ireland can't afford to play a home Test against Bangladesh.
If the ICC and other boards around the world don't see this as a problem then we are in trouble
🚨 Quinton De Kock has announced that he will retire from ODI cricket following the conclusion of the World Cup.
While Dewald Brevis, W. Parnell and T. Stubbs have been released from the Betway ODI squad against Australia for the five-match series that starts on Thursday
This is the first time a Proteas 1st wicket partnership opening pair have had a 100 run opening partnership away from home since 2012 v Aus in Adelaide
#NZvSA
Rabada becomes the 12th South African who gets 5 wkts in an innings to go onto the Lord's Honours Board & 1st since Vernon Philander in 2012
Excellent bowling
#ENGvSA
My final tribute to Mohammed Amir and Dale Steyn who have both retired from Test Cricket in the last 2 weeks. Both pictures were taken by me at Newlands.
On the Bavuma talk I hear some want him to not be stranded at the end of the innings and more time to score those bigs runs.
Bat him at 5 and give him that opportunity and move Quinton De Kock down one.
#PAKvSA
I am sorry but 2 consecutive no balls off that penultimate over is really poor. You can coat it anyway you like it but it is just not good enough at this level
Cost South Africa 9 runs in the end and arguably the match
24 days after the final Test against India and...
We still don't have a full time
Director Of Cricket
Team Director
The Team Directors full time backup staff
We are 32 days away from the beginning of the start of England's tour to SA
CSA need to make decisions
So ends a quite magnificent day and pretty good week. Met some cool people for the first time and commentated on a magnificent Test Match live from Newlands with
@1worldsr
something I wanted to do since growing up with the voice of the late Robin Jackman
Faf Du Plessis stepping down as captain from T20s and Tests in particular is the news we always expected but it's not news I'm happy about
He has led the team well both on and off the field overall despite going through a tough time recently
Thanks for the memories Faf
Only Vernon Philander post isolation and Peter Pollock pre isolation in 7 and 9 matches respectively got to 50 Test wickets faster than Duanne Olivier who has done it in 11 matches
#SAvIND
When Ngidi is fully fit and firing at all cylinders he is a quality bowler. Has bowled beautifully today and fully deserves his career best figures of 6/58
#SAvsAUS
#Proteas
#MangaungOval
As for Phangiso, well his success for JSK shouldn't surprise anyone the man has been doing it for years in South Africa
It was odd that he needed a wild card pick to get selected for the tournament but glad he is basking in the sun, he deserves it
#SA20
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This Proteas side can win this World Cup (and have a squad capable of that).
But not playing Wiaan, Potgieter, Linde, E. Bosch, Jones, or Muthusamy over the last 12 - 18 months, when a proper number 7 was needed, could come back to haunt them
#CWC23
It's wild that some folk on here didn't want Rilee in the Proteas World Cup Squad.
Incredible innings from a incredible cricketer. Deserved the right to get to his hundred in singles and his 2nd T20 century this month
#T20WC2022
Whisper it softly but in the last 23 days Andile Phehlukwayo has scored his maiden First Class and List A centuries both for the Dolphins
Very important for him because runs are where he has been missing. Could be a turning point in his career
SA need a strong batter in the middle order well David Bedingham is currently 7th in the leading run scorers list for the
#4DaySeries
having played a game less than those above him
Currently averaging 63.80 with a strike rate of 78.37
SA have been
Out batted
Out bowled
Out fielded
Out coached
Out thought
Out supported
@TheBarmyArmy
have been fantastic all series.
They have been some green shoots Rassie, QDK and Nortje but it's back to the drawing board for SA
#SAvENG