INTERNATIONAL CRICKET
Now the hard part for hard-hitting Rassie
When Rassie van der Dussen reached 90 at St George’s Park on Saturday he was the fourth SA player to forge that close to a century in his debut one-day international innings. Thirteen balls later he became the only one of the four not to go on to three figures. Colin Ingram made 124 against Zimbabwe in Bloemfontein in 2010‚ Temba Bavuma’s 113 came against Ireland in Benoni in 2016‚ and Sri Lanka were on the receiving end of Reeza Hendricks’s 102 in Pallekele in August 2018. Van der Dussen got out for 93, and quite an innings it was. Nobody on the SA domestic scene hits the ball harder than the Lions lasher has done for almost 11 years and he did not struggle to bring that approach to the highest level on Saturday after an unsure start. Van der Dussen ripped his runs off 101 balls and hammered six fours and three sixes. Then his bat splayed too horizontally to a full toss from Hasan Ali and he shoved a catch down long-off’s throat. “It was the kind of wicket that’s always difficult f...
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