The Proteas must first start winning regularly before they can contemplate resting and rotating players in and out of their squads.
Proteas white-ball coach Rob Walter in discussion with Wiaan Mulder. Picture: Daniel Prentice/Gallo Images
In their recent tour to the West Indies the Proteas played a largely full-strength team in the two-Test series, which they won one-nil after drawing the first Test and winning the second. That is once again the case for the Afghanistan and Irish series, with Walter also saying that he wanted to turn the Proteas into a team with the same sort of depth as the
That is where cricket falls short. There is no standard international season, and with the amount of money spinning T20 leagues popping up around the world, players choose to rather earn big money, than represent their country.
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