Proteas win Test and ODI series but friendship is stronger than ever
SA players pose with the ODI series winners trophy. Picture: SUMAYA HISHAM
SA cricket will be hugely indebted to India for agreeing to travel here given the continuing ravages of the Covid-19 pandemic. SA, coach Mark Boucher admitted, were a little underdone by the time the first Test arrived in Centurion, but they bounced back splendidly at the Wanderers with a magnificent fourth-innings chase.
“We handled their spin better than them facing our spinners,” opening batsman Janneman Malan said. “That gave us confidence. Our spinners were nice and tight. We did well as a bowling unit. We kept getting a wicket that kept breaking their momentum,” said Malan, who was named the ICC’s emerging player of the year for 2021.
The player who has become a white-ball phenomenon with the bat, however, is Rassie van der Dussen. He had a strike rate of 112 and was second to De Kock in the run-scoring department. Van der Dussen averaged 218, having been dismissed just once in the series. That all three centurions in the series were South African says something about the resilience of the bowling department without Kagiso Rabada, who was rested for the series.
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