Johan Botha has choice tips for the Proteas
‘SA have won enough in Australia not to fear playing here anymore,’ says Johannesburg-born player
London — Bring your best bowlers and a thick skin‚ and do not be fooled by Australia’s form in 2018. Johan Botha’s advice to SA for their forthcoming series against the Australians is as sensible as his bowling. “SA have won enough in Australia not to fear playing here anymore‚ or standing back and almost being overawed by the occasion‚” Botha said. And he should know. The Johannesburg-born converted medium pacer played five Tests‚ 78 one-day internationals and 40 T20s for SA as an off-spinner before moving about 10,000km away to Adelaide in 2012 and becoming an Australian citizen in 2016.
Now 36 and still turning an arm over for the Hobart Hurricanes‚ among others‚ he captained SA’s one-day side 10 times — five of them when Graeme Smith was injured in Australia in January 2009‚ which remains their only success in bilateral series in the format there. SA‚ no doubt still bathing in the afterglow of claiming their first Test rubber in Australia on that tour‚ prevailed 4-1 with B...
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