WAT South Africa A Team 2007/08 - World A-Team Cricket Forum

Andy Mellon · #1 (**permalink**) 13-04-2008, 05:07 AM

Does anyone out there want to assist in selecting (last) year's South Africa A Team? None has been picked for last season, and it'd be great to do a quick job in selecting one.

Andy Mellon · 08:30 AM

Batting

Code:

Player 		MatIn NORunsHS 	 Ave   BF   SR    C F 0 4s 6s 
JP Duminy 	4  7  3 373 115* 93.25 656  56.85 1 2 0 43  3 (Cape Cobras) 
J Botha 	4  7  2 358 91*  71.60 901  39.73 0 4 0 42  1 (Warriors) 
JA Morkel	4  7  2 334 151  66.80 390  85.64 1 1 0 42  9 (Titans) 
SC Cook 	5  10 1 465 152  51.66 1026 45.32 2 1 1 59  0 (Lions) 
S van Zyl 	9  16 5 554 152* 50.36 1455 38.07 1 3 2 64  1 (Cape Cobras) 
H Davids 	10 19 2 817 123* 48.05 1659 49.24 3 5 3 93  6 (Cape Cobras) 
HG Kuhn 	10 17 1 755 176* 47.18 1442 52.35 2 4 1 103 2 (Titans) 
VD Philander 	5  6  2 173 83   43.25 353  49.00 0 2 0 21  2 (Cape Cobras) 
AG Puttick 	10 19 1 771 152* 42.83 1670 46.16 2 4 0 103 2 (Cape Cobras) 
AM Amla 	9  15 1 569 150* 40.64 864  65.85 3 1 1 72  9 (Dolphins) 
D Elgar 	10 18 2 638 166  39.87 1538 41.48 2 2 1 76  1 (Eagles) 
F du Plessis 	9  15 0 590 123  39.33 1186 49.74 1 3 2 79  0 (Titans) 
JL Ontong 	8  14 0 518 108  37.00 866  59.81 1 3 1 72  3 (Lions) 
MJ Harris 	10 17 5 430 63*  35.83 931  46.18 0 3 0 55  0 (Lions) 
DJ Jacobs 	9  15 3 430 90   35.83 788  54.56 0 4 3 60  3 (Warriors) 
I Khan 		10 18 2 555 80   34.68 1346 41.23 0 3 1 77  0 (Dolphins) 
R McLaren 	7  12 1 373 121* 33.90 814  45.82 1 2 2 44  2 (Eagles) 
D Smit 		10 16 5 365 89*  33.18 638  57.21 0 2 3 55  0 (Dolphins) 
P Joubert 	10 15 2 428 87   32.92 1027 41.67 0 3 2 51  2 (Titans) 
RCC Canning 	5  5  1 127 41   31.75 362  35.08 0 0 0 15  0 (Cape Cobras) 
WL Coetsee 	9  15 0 432 131  28.80 979  44.12 1 2 1 50  1 (Lions) 
BL Reddy 	7  11 3 228 57   28.50 424  53.77 0 2 0 23  5 (Titans) 
DJ Watson 	10 18 2 438 97   27.37 1010 43.36 0 2 2 61  0 (Dolphins) 
RJ Peterson 	10 14 1 350 55   26.92 660  53.03 0 1 0 53  0 (Warriors) 
AN Petersen 	10 18 0 474 102  26.33 943  50.26 1 2 3 68  6 (Lions) 
RT Bailey 	10 16 2 365 81   26.07 857  42.59 0 1 3 52  3 (Eagles) 
BD Snijman 	10 18 0 468 67   26.00 960  48.75 0 2 0 62  5 (Lions) 
LL Bosman 	7  13 2 286 55   26.00 469  60.98 0 1 1 43  2 (Eagles) 
CD de Lange 	10 17 2 385 59   25.66 707  54.45 0 2 2 52  4 (Cape Cobras)

Bowling

Code:

Player 		Mat	Overs Mdns Runs Wkts BBI   BBM    Ave   Econ SR   5 10 
VD Philander 	5 	187.4 49   468  29   7/64  9/63   16.13 2.49 38.8 2 0 (Cape Cobras) 
D du Preez 	10 	369.4 99   930  55   7/108 10/112 16.90 2.51 40.3 2 1 (Eagles) 
J Louw 		10 	322.2 101  751  41   6/39  11/92  18.31 2.32 47.1 4 1 (Dolphins) 
M Zondeki 	10 	371.1 88   1089 54   5/26  10/93  20.16 2.93 41.2 5 1 (Cape Cobras) 
GJP Kruger	7 	201.3 49   643  30   6/49  6/49   21.43 3.19 40.3 1 0 (Lions) 
P Joubert	10 	228.0 77   527  24   5/74  5/74   21.95 2.31 57.0 1 0 (Titans) 
CJD de Villiers 8 	246.4 55   661  29   5/65  5/65   22.79 2.67 51.0 1 0 (Eagles) 
PV Mpitsang 	10 	294.4 77   756  33   4/40  7/95   22.90 2.56 53.5 0 0 (Eagles) 
Imran Tahir 	6 	210.0 31   738  31   7/93  12/154 23.80 3.51 40.6 3 1 (Titans) 
LL Tsotsobe 	10 	321.1 69   947  39   7/39  7/95   24.28 2.94 49.4 1 0 (Warriors) 
R McLaren 	7 	196.0 39   538  22   6/43  9/62   24.45 2.74 53.4 1 0 (Eagles) 
MW Olivier 	9 	183.0 30   587  23   10/65 10/65  25.52 3.20 47.7 1 1 (Warriors) 
S Mjekula 	7 	148.4 36   436  17   4/29  6/69   25.64 2.93 52.4 0 0 (Warriors) 
HW le Roux 	8 	190.3 52   471  16   6/29  8/74   29.43 2.47 71.4 1 0 (Lions) 
T Tshabalala 	7 	122.5 16   386  13   4/57  6/89   29.69 3.14 56.6 0 0 (Eagles) 
RK Kleinveldt 	9 	251.3 60   747  25   5/92  5/127  29.88 2.97 60.3 1 0 (Cape Cobras) 
NE Mbhalati 	10 	231.3 56   696  23   4/63  5/128  30.26 3.00 60.3 0 0 (Titans) 
CW Henderson 	8 	192.0 51   485  16   4/59  5/163  30.31 2.52 72.0 0 0 (Lions) 
Q Friend 	9 	222.5 51   715  22   5/30  6/100  32.50 3.20 60.7 1 0 (Dolphins) 
CJ Alexander 	8 	211.5 29   803  24   5/61  7/164  33.45 3.79 52.9 2 0 (Lions) 
F de Wet 	8 	275.4 80   642  19   3/23  5/124  33.78 2.32 87.0 0 0 (Lions) 
RJ Peterson 	10      298.0 67   813  24   5/124 8/260  33.87 2.72 74.5 1 0 (Warriors)

Andy Mellon · 15-04-2008, 08:34 AM in reply to Andy Mellon's post "Eligible Players and Stats"

The Last SAF A Team

DJ Jacobs
HM Amla
JL Ontong
JP Duminy
MN Van Wyk
JA Morkel
MJ Harris WKT
JJ van der Wath
DW Steyn
T Tshabalala
M Zondeki

Steyn, van der Wath and Amla are now unavailable due to either age restraints or the Test cap limit

Aurelius

Philander clearly starts as the allrounder, and if Duminy's eligible he should still be there. Tshabalala is the only spinner I recognise, but he didn't really have a great season. But du Preez, Zondeki and Louw look like pretty decent pace options.

Andy Mellon

As I recall, Kuhn is an opening batsman and keeper, so he's a sure thing in my opinion.

Davids has the weight of runs behind him for the whole season to be in contention too.

Batsmen: Duminy, Albie Morkel, Kuhn, Davids, van Zyl, Puttick
Keeper: Kuhn + Another
Spinners: Not many options. 13 wickets for Tshabalala isn't enough.
Seamers: Plenty available. Philander, du Preez, Louw, Zondeki, Joubert, Mpitsang

Potential line up:

Duminy
Kuhn (+)
Morkel
Davids
Puttick
van Zyl
Philander
(spinning all-rounder?)
Louw
du Preez
Zondeki

Aurelius

The problem is I don't really know what positions most of these batsmen play in f-c cricket- I was under the impression that Duminy was a middle-order bat. If not, fine, but if he is then I really think we should try to find the best available specialist.

As for the spinners, I think the only two options are Imran Tahir and Robin Peterson. Tahir had the better season as a bowler alone, but he's 29 and Peterson seems to be the next cab off the rank, as well as being a decent no. 8.

As for the pacemen, du Preez, Louw and Zondeki are the standouts among the specialists, with Philander as the allrounder.

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