You can’t help but feel for Anrich Nortje. If it wasn’t for the fractures that have stalked him, the poor blighter wouldn’t catch a break.
Early injuries conspired to make his career a slow burner ; an ankle injury shortened his breakthrough tournament ; a shoulder injury put paid to his chances of taking up his first IPL draft and cut short his debut one-day international series against Sri Lanka; and now a broken thumb has ruled him out of the World Cup.
But as unkind as this is going to sound, the Warriors fast bowler’s missing out for Chris Morris – a man who is a Parneytail short of becoming the new Wayne Parnell, thanks to being predictably unpredictable – is probably a blessing in disguise for the Proteas. So Morris went from being one of those players in possession of sport’s more nebulous titles – the X-factor – to being a Y-factor player . Put simply, despite being able to win his team’s games in three different ways, Morris isn’t always trusted.
Thanks to their past in World Cups, maybe the Proteas erred on the side of picking talents whose metronomic abilities could be relied on.
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