Australia vs South Africa – Inexperience and injuries underpin South Africa’s batting troubles
Staff, 2022-12-21 11:51:12,
Let’s get this out of the way up front: parts of this story could sound like excuses or justifications for South Africa’s poor batting. They’re not. Think of them as explanations of sorts, reasons, perhaps, and ways to ensure we’re not going over the same ground when we discuss what we have known for the last year: that their batting line-up has severely underperformed.
In 2022, South Africa’s average per wicket is 24.63, the seventh-lowest for any team in a calendar year in which they’ve played a minimum of 10 Tests, and the lowest for South Africa in their history. They have no batters with Test averages over 40, though this year Temba Bavuma has averaged 41.25. Only four others average over 30 and one of them, Keegan Petersen, missed out on two of the four series they’ve played. Kyle Verreynne and Dean Elgar are the other two who have some runs to their name, but not nearly as many as South Africa would like.
Almost every member of the South African squad has mentioned conditions as one of the causes, if not the main cause, of their lean patches and their newest cap, Khaya Zondo, has added his voice to the conversation. “I did think this was going to be a tough year of international cricket for the Proteas,” he said. “The first series was in New Zealand, then Bangladesh [at home]. Then we went to England and now we’re in Australia.”
The last time South Africa visited those three countries in the same year was a decade ago, in 2012. They won in all three, with a batting…
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