SA’s batting needs knocking into shape for World Cup
Coach Ottis Gibson’s bowling headache looks to be over, while the Proteas' batting has been less convincing
Now that SA’s bowling attack has more than reinforced their well-known abilities‚ it is the batting line-up that needs to state its intentions in the next two ODIs. Adelaide (Friday) and Hobart (Sunday)‚ the next destinations in the short Australian limited overs junket‚ should be better than the green Perth Stadium springboard of a surface that unsettled Australia’s creaky batting order. The small chase put the difficult conditions out of the game and the bright start between Reeza Hendricks and Quinton de Kock ended the game quite early as a contest. But surety is not something SA’s various batting units have provided since the retirement of AB de Villiers. While the Sri Lankan ODI series was a qualified success‚ 300 was only crossed once, even though the chasing was convincing in the first two ODIs. The Zimbabwe series‚ played on unseasonably spicy early season tracks‚ provided no answers from a batting perspective and only served to reinforce SA’s superior bowling. Ottis Gibson’...
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