Proteas coach Ottis Gibson wants his top-order batsmen to take more responsibility against Australia in the second Test starting at St George’s Park in Port Elizabeth on Friday. SA are chasing the game having lost the first Test in Durban on Sunday and they need to win at the country’s oldest Test venue to get back on track for a series victory. To achieve that‚ Gibson says, SA’s best batsmen need to man up. "You can’t bat that badly in your first innings against a top team like Australia and expect to win the Test match‚" Gibson said on Wednesday. "Even though we gave ourselves a good chance of winning in the end‚ the poor batting in the first innings probably cost us." In Durban‚ SA crashed from 150/5 to 162 all out in six ugly first-innings overs. AB de Villiers was left stranded — unbeaten on 71 — but as for the rest, it was forgettable. The Proteas were on the back foot from then on, apart from an outstanding 147-run second-innings partnership between Aiden Markram (143) and Qu...
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