South Africa – Cricket World Cup 2019
It might not be the worst time to put a wager on them. The feeling is that the Proteas are too good to continue playing such rubbish and that the wheel could still turn in their favour.
When South Africa announced its team on April 18 for the 2019 ICC Cricket World Cup it included Dale Steyn and Anrich Nortje.
Unfortunately both were withdrawn due to injuries (Steyn shoulder and Nortje thumb) and their places were filled by Chris Morris and Beuran Hendricks.
Ottis Gibson, who took over South Africa’s coach in October 2017, has also served twice as a bowling coach of England, as well as being the former head coach of the West Indies.
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The South African squad is as follows:
Faf du Plessis (c), Quinton de Kock (wk), Hashim Amla, Aiden Markram, Rassie van der Dussen, David Miller, JP Duminy, Andile Phehlukwayo, Dwaine Pretorius, Dale Steyn, Kagiso Rabada, Lungi Ngidi, Anrich Nortje, Chris Morris, Imran Tahir, Tabraiz Shamsi.
The second match was against Bangladesh at The Oval in London.
South Africa won the toss and elected to bowl first.
Bangladesh won the match by 21 runs, thanks mainly to a 142 run partnership between Mushfiqur Rahim and Shakib al Hasan which turned the tide in Bangladesh’s favour.
Bangladesh made its highest ODI runs against South Africa.
After Quinton de Kock’s run out in the chase, South Africa lost wickets at regular intervals.
Faf du Plessis, the SA captain said after the match that nothing went according to plan.
Fast bowler Lungi Ngidi getting injured during the game and only bowling four overs did not help.
He limped away with a left hamstring problem.
It was SA’s second loss within the space of four days as the team suffered a big loss to England four days before, also while chasing a big target.
Du Plessis has tried to remain upbeat.
“I have to front up to it. It’s probably not the strongest team we have ever had coming to a World Cup. That’s not my choice.”
Things only got worse, with a loss to Virat Kohli’s India three days later, which was no great surprise as the Proteas have only won three times in the last 10 matches against India, including an eight wicket loss at The Oval during the Champions Trophy two years ago.
This was followed by a washed out game against the West Indies.
Coming up, South Africa play Afghanistan on June 15.
If SA don’t win this, they will be the laughing stock of the cricket world.
Then it’s games against New Zealand (June 19), Pakistan (June 23), Sri Lanka (June 28) and Australia (July 6).
SA has the ability to win all these and possibly still scrape through into the semi-finals.
Their record against these teams has generally been favourable, except at World Cups, where SA inexplicably struggle.
However, a big win against Afghanistan could break the shackles, release the pressure and see the boys play some exciting cricket.
It might not be the worst time to put a wager on them. The feeling is that the Proteas are too good to continue playing such rubbish and that the wheel could still turn in their favour.
