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1/12/2025
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00:00
There is another opportunity in the same set of players in the next month's Champions League.
00:11
How do you see this overall progress?
00:13
What sort of leadership do you see in this team?
00:18
Because when South Africa wasn't at the top of the world, that was the top of the chess rankings,
00:22
which was about 20 years back or 30 years back.
00:24
You had different members of the squad taking roles as different leaders
00:28
How do you see this change?
00:58
There's a lot of new things, and still they qualified for the T20 World Cup final, the WTC final.
01:05
It is actually incredible, and I feel they deserve a lot more credit for achieving this.
01:10
It's going to take a little bit of time to find that consistency that we've had,
01:14
maybe between 2008 and 2015, where we were consistently around one of the top teams in the world.
01:22
And they will get there, it takes time.
01:24
New teams have to go through those phases to find the experienced players again,
01:28
to find the right mix of players.
01:30
I was there in 2005, 2006 and 2007, where we were all over the place.
01:34
Very difficult, very inconsistent.
01:36
It was very difficult to find our groove, and then in 2008 we started clicking.
01:40
But we had to go through those hard times first.
01:43
AB, you mentioned about the WTC final.
01:46
Seven wins in a row, getting there.
01:48
But facing a tough opponent like Australia, who have just beaten India 3-1,
01:54
making a come-from-behind series win,
01:59
how difficult or how challenging is it going to be for South Africa?
02:03
And what are the key areas do you think they need to seize to get the better of it?
02:06
Just an additional part of that question.
02:08
Yesterday we had a conversation with Sean Pollack,
02:11
and he wasn't too excited about South Africa's prospects.
02:14
So your take on that?
02:17
Yes, OK, first of all...
02:22
Sorry, I'm trying to find the first one again.
02:24
What do they have to do to win against a team like Australia?
02:27
You asked something else first, sorry, and I was watching that six.
02:30
And I'm also checking this, I licked his two balls before the last time I was out,
02:33
I've got to run down.
02:35
There's no doubt Australia are favourites.
02:37
There was the first question.
02:39
Proteus have done exceptionally well in the last while.
02:42
It shows you they're playing a positive brand of cricket,
02:44
they've got wonderful results, I love that about them.
02:46
And not only the seven wins in a row, before that it was one draw,
02:49
and then a bunch of wins again in a row before that.
02:51
So I think it's like 10 out of 11 test match wins.
02:54
It's an incredible stat, it doesn't happen often.
02:57
And once again, credit's got to go to them, and the coaching staff,
03:00
and the way they are approaching their cricket,
03:02
with Thien-Baba Bouma as captain,
03:04
taking a lot of criticism over the years,
03:06
and look at where he is now, taking the team to the WTC final,
03:10
over and above incredible cricketing nations like India,
03:13
like New Zealand, like England, so great achievement.
03:16
But yes, the reason why they're not favourites
03:19
is they're still very inexperienced.
03:21
They haven't travelled to places like England of late,
03:24
they haven't been to Australia,
03:26
so travelling experience comes with time as well.
03:29
Yes, they played well in Bangladesh,
03:31
but it was only two test match series
03:33
against not one of the best teams in the world.
03:35
So now they're up against Australia,
03:37
at Lord's, a moving wicket,
03:39
against one of the best bowling attacks in the world,
03:41
a batting line-up that bats deep,
03:43
they all seem to be in form,
03:45
but I will never write my team off.
03:47
They're a bunch of fighters,
03:49
and Thien-Baba Bouma mentioned this in the press conference,
03:51
he said, I will take this team to war,
03:53
because I know they're going to fight for each other.
03:55
So, that's all you want.
03:57
If you have that kind of attitude, you can achieve anything,
03:59
and I'll back the guys to go all the way and win this WTC final.
04:02
Especially these wins have come on the back of a team
04:05
which haven't had one of the top players,
04:07
because a lot of players have been sidelined due to injuries,
04:10
but guys like Kwena and David Benningham,
04:13
coming in, scoring for him,
04:15
he's been taking excellent catches in the slips as well.
04:17
Just a word about these youngsters,
04:19
two of these youngsters, Kwena and David.
04:21
The most important thing is to stick with the team they've got now,
04:23
with the 13, 14, 15 players,
04:25
and build around that.
04:27
That's what I had when I grew up,
04:29
in the pro TSI, Graham Smith backed me,
04:32
I wasn't always consistent in the first few years,
04:34
and he stuck with me.
04:36
And then finally,
04:38
the team reaped the rewards from me becoming more consistent.
04:41
Quite a few other examples like that,
04:43
Ashim Amla, Dale Stone,
04:45
the list goes on.
04:46
You could easily have dropped those players,
04:47
because they were inconsistent early on,
04:49
but they stuck with the team,
04:50
they believed in what they had,
04:51
and I feel the pro TSI need to do the same now.
04:53
They have a very special group of players together,
04:55
stick with the guys,
04:56
it's going to be inconsistent at times,
04:58
but just stick with them.
04:59
That's what I feel.
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