Told you so. ****house effort today, it must be said. Gibbs a pale shadow of his former self.Oz have the best team on paper, IMHO. SA don't have quite enough dashers in the top order for my liking. The Oz skipper the only real weak link in their chain.
It's interesting though, maybe the IPL should have some sort of seconds league to keep players fresh, even just for each IPLs team's benefit.Former South Africa players call for overhaul in the wake of the team's World Twenty20 exit | Cricket Features | ICC World Twenty20 2010 | Cricinfo.com
I really lol'd at the following mention:
Matthews laid some of the blame for South Africa's poor showing at the door of the IPL. "The IPL doesn't help other teams. The only South African who benefitted from playing in the IPL was Jacques Kallis. The rest of them all sat on the sidelines."
Surely it's better for the teams themselves to have their back-ups playing games, in some form, so that a player that gets called up (due to injury or poor form of someone else) isn't coming in cold?With alternating home and away games every 2 days, and with a total of 14 games in 2 months, I am not sure how effective can be a second XI program,particularly one which can do justice to the foreign players. With such a short time, emphasis is always on using the best resource based on it's form, rather than working on a resource to make it achieve desired output levels.
Yes, it indeed is a good suggestion, and I will be hugely surprised if the non-first-choice players are just asked stay at home rather than involve in some practise matches in the mean time their main squad is travelling around the country.Surely it's better for the teams themselves to have their back-ups playing games, in some form, so that a player that gets called up (due to injury or poor form of someone else) isn't coming in cold?