“Why put extra pressure on him by making him feel like he’s playing for any other reason than he’s good enough to do it?”
“Realistically‚ they should be scrapped‚” Andrew Hall said about what Cricket South Africa calls the “target” of picking five black players‚ two of them black Africans‚ in the national team.Which brought Hall to Bavuma.“Don’t put that pressure on him. Leave him alone and let him play and he’ll come good and score you runs.”
Maybe that connects Hall‚ who spent as many innings — 11 — batting at Nos. 2‚ 3‚ 6 and 7 as he did at each of Nos. 8 and 9‚ with Bavuma‚ who has also been bounced around the order.“He’s showed time and time again in Test cricket that when the pressure’s on he’s bailed South Africa out of trouble‚” Hall said.
They rarely add that Bavuma often comes to the crease when South Africa are in trouble: he has taken guard with the total still in the double figures 24 times‚ or in 40.7% of his innings.
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