Even if one views the Proteas’ tactic as reckless, you have to ask the question: what else could they have done?
Dale Steyn’s latest injury setback – he has “inflammation” in the right shoulder that kept him out for the best part of two years – raises a huge concern.
I have no way of proving which one is the case, but if there’s one thing national coach Ottis Gibson and captain Faf du Plessis have done well this season, it is to sell us this tactic. And, by all accounts, it has worked a treat – South Africa have won 10 of their 13 ODIs since commencing that trip Down Under.
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