Comments on: Kallis injury puts selection posers in perspective http://www.sportsleader.co.za/adamwakefield/2009/11/24/kallis-injury-puts-selection-posers-in-perspective/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:44:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: guy http://www.sportsleader.co.za/adamwakefield/2009/11/24/kallis-injury-puts-selection-posers-in-perspective/#comment-7212 guy Fri, 04 Dec 2009 05:22:20 +0000 http://www.sportsleader.co.za/adamwakefield/2009/11/24/kallis-injury-puts-selection-posers-in-perspective/#comment-7212 i think adam is right. batting is not an issue. yes, we played badly at pe. sports teams do that from time to time. adam's point, as i read it, is that relatively speaking - and all things being equal - it is our bowling that will be the factor that prevents outright wins. our batting is epic - smith, amla, kallis, de villiers, petersen, duminy. that is a power line up. yes, jp needs to get his shiz in order, and i have no doubt he will. i reckon the lad could become our best batter since readmission. compare that to our bowlers - steyn, and er, a recently in-form morkel. parnell has looked good here and there, and we need him to fire. makhaya? getting on a bit now. and mclaren is largely untested. our bowling unit has potential, but it also has some way to go. let's see what kingsmead delivers. i think adam is right. batting is not an issue. yes, we played badly at pe. sports teams do that from time to time. adam’s point, as i read it, is that relatively speaking - and all things being equal - it is our bowling that will be the factor that prevents outright wins.

our batting is epic - smith, amla, kallis, de villiers, petersen, duminy. that is a power line up. yes, jp needs to get his shiz in order, and i have no doubt he will. i reckon the lad could become our best batter since readmission. compare that to our bowlers - steyn, and er, a recently in-form morkel. parnell has looked good here and there, and we need him to fire. makhaya? getting on a bit now. and mclaren is largely untested.

our bowling unit has potential, but it also has some way to go. let’s see what kingsmead delivers.

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]]> By: Adam Wakefield http://www.sportsleader.co.za/adamwakefield/2009/11/24/kallis-injury-puts-selection-posers-in-perspective/#comment-7200 Adam Wakefield Tue, 01 Dec 2009 12:47:12 +0000 http://www.sportsleader.co.za/adamwakefield/2009/11/24/kallis-injury-puts-selection-posers-in-perspective/#comment-7200 @ Chris (shot for the comment) lol...spot on Chris. Newlands certainly deceived us. I got home from being out on Sunday keen to watch some cricket and I see the English are already batting! What a disaster. PE was GG for the Proteas from the 15th over. It does surprise me that we were knocked over so easily. Gibbs (everyone loves a maverick...the Aussies dig Gibbs)was back and didn't make good while Amla was dropped after a fine knock. Duminy's form is starting to be a cause for concern. Petersen showed his colleagues how to play with a good knock under pressure. The team has kept changing (VdM our for Botha), and while the selectors are trying to find the right combination, the sooner Kallis is back in the line-up the better. Onto Kingsmead! If we lose to the Poms in a ODI series, I will be seriously depressed. At least Pietersen isn't scoring (which is ominous...he usually saves his best for the Tests.) @ Chris (shot for the comment)

lol…spot on Chris. Newlands certainly deceived us. I got home from being out on Sunday keen to watch some cricket and I see the English are already batting! What a disaster. PE was GG for the Proteas from the 15th over.

It does surprise me that we were knocked over so easily. Gibbs (everyone loves a maverick…the Aussies dig Gibbs)was back and didn’t make good while Amla was dropped after a fine knock. Duminy’s form is starting to be a cause for concern. Petersen showed his colleagues how to play with a good knock under pressure.

The team has kept changing (VdM our for Botha), and while the selectors are trying to find the right combination, the sooner Kallis is back in the line-up the better.

Onto Kingsmead! If we lose to the Poms in a ODI series, I will be seriously depressed. At least Pietersen isn’t scoring (which is ominous…he usually saves his best for the Tests.)

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]]> By: Chris http://www.sportsleader.co.za/adamwakefield/2009/11/24/kallis-injury-puts-selection-posers-in-perspective/#comment-7196 Chris Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:02:56 +0000 http://www.sportsleader.co.za/adamwakefield/2009/11/24/kallis-injury-puts-selection-posers-in-perspective/#comment-7196 "Batting-wise, South Africa has never been better" I think Sunday's performance would suggest otherwise. “Batting-wise, South Africa has never been better”

I think Sunday’s performance would suggest otherwise.

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]]> By: guy http://www.sportsleader.co.za/adamwakefield/2009/11/24/kallis-injury-puts-selection-posers-in-perspective/#comment-7167 guy Fri, 27 Nov 2009 07:44:23 +0000 http://www.sportsleader.co.za/adamwakefield/2009/11/24/kallis-injury-puts-selection-posers-in-perspective/#comment-7167 love hearing you laud harry. massive fan of the guy. might not turn it square, but he's tight and competitive. he has a definite role, and having definite roles that are executed well go a long way in balancing teams. plaaitjies looked an interesting prospect during the champions league. he has some real gas. anyone looking after him? i guessmy point is that i'm tired and uninspired by the vasy majority of sa seamers - between 125-135kph, no real movement through the air of the deck. just dull bowlers. give me a wild paceman over dour trundlers any day of the week. love hearing you laud harry. massive fan of the guy. might not turn it square, but he’s tight and competitive. he has a definite role, and having definite roles that are executed well go a long way in balancing teams.

plaaitjies looked an interesting prospect during the champions league. he has some real gas. anyone looking after him? i guessmy point is that i’m tired and uninspired by the vasy majority of sa seamers - between 125-135kph, no real movement through the air of the deck. just dull bowlers. give me a wild paceman over dour trundlers any day of the week.

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]]> By: Adam Wakefield http://www.sportsleader.co.za/adamwakefield/2009/11/24/kallis-injury-puts-selection-posers-in-perspective/#comment-7162 Adam Wakefield Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:05:47 +0000 http://www.sportsleader.co.za/adamwakefield/2009/11/24/kallis-injury-puts-selection-posers-in-perspective/#comment-7162 Thanks for the comment guy Spot on about the bowling. We have Steyn, but he can't do it alone, and being the spearhead places undue pressure on him. Morne is the guy we need to step up as such and show us what he has. We all know about his potential, and Parnell's (who out of no-where was bowling really quickly for a period but came back slower for the ICC Champions League. Genuine quicks are a rarity now with so much cricket going on. Lee is finished (?), Bond is playing his first Test in 2 years and SA, while having good bowlers, has no one that stands out. Others might disagree, but McLaren is a better bowling option. At least Harry (big fan though not everyone likes his laid back attitude) can put it on a spot with his tweakers. Can't wait to see him bowl a classy top-spinner. Any other bowlers we have left out apart from what guy mentioned...? Thanks for the comment guy

Spot on about the bowling. We have Steyn, but he can’t do it alone, and being the spearhead places undue pressure on him. Morne is the guy we need to step up as such and show us what he has. We all know about his potential, and Parnell’s (who out of no-where was bowling really quickly for a period but came back slower for the ICC Champions League.

Genuine quicks are a rarity now with so much cricket going on. Lee is finished (?), Bond is playing his first Test in 2 years and SA, while having good bowlers, has no one that stands out.

Others might disagree, but McLaren is a better bowling option.

At least Harry (big fan though not everyone likes his laid back attitude) can put it on a spot with his tweakers. Can’t wait to see him bowl a classy top-spinner.

Any other bowlers we have left out apart from what guy mentioned…?

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]]> By: guy http://www.sportsleader.co.za/adamwakefield/2009/11/24/kallis-injury-puts-selection-posers-in-perspective/#comment-7159 guy Thu, 26 Nov 2009 08:36:41 +0000 http://www.sportsleader.co.za/adamwakefield/2009/11/24/kallis-injury-puts-selection-posers-in-perspective/#comment-7159 i'm not convinced yet about mclaren. all-rounders are not our problem. as you and many others have said, it is our bowling. i don't see mclaren just yet as the bowling option we need. a lot depends on morne i feel. if he can come right, we suddenly look much better on the assumption wayne is fit. three quicks offering three very different options - short, skiddy, swings it out; tall, fast, steepling bounce; left-arm, brisk, swings it both ways. and if makhaya is in the loop for the tests, then we have a seam attack that suddenly looks the part. the problem is depth i guess. who else other than these guys can step up? abdullah? not sure about him. tsotsobe looked good the other day. a bit more pace, nice and tall. beyond these guys? what i really crave are a handful of saffer quicks that can hurtle it down 145+ at will. like in aus - lee, johnson, bollinger, tait, even hilfenhaus, are all aorund 150. nothing can replace raw pace. i’m not convinced yet about mclaren. all-rounders are not our problem. as you and many others have said, it is our bowling. i don’t see mclaren just yet as the bowling option we need. a lot depends on morne i feel. if he can come right, we suddenly look much better on the assumption wayne is fit. three quicks offering three very different options - short, skiddy, swings it out; tall, fast, steepling bounce; left-arm, brisk, swings it both ways. and if makhaya is in the loop for the tests, then we have a seam attack that suddenly looks the part.

the problem is depth i guess. who else other than these guys can step up? abdullah? not sure about him. tsotsobe looked good the other day. a bit more pace, nice and tall. beyond these guys?

what i really crave are a handful of saffer quicks that can hurtle it down 145+ at will. like in aus - lee, johnson, bollinger, tait, even hilfenhaus, are all aorund 150. nothing can replace raw pace.

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