South Africa cricket team is one of the favourites to win the ICC Champions Trophy. In the last 13 months, the Proteas have made the semifinals of the ODI World Cup and the final of the T20 World Cup. Right now, they are also in a prime position to qualify for the World Test Championship Final 2025. Amid all of the success, they have been handed a resounding defeat by Pakistan.
Having won the T20I series, South Africa was expected to breeze past Pakistan at home in ODIs as well. That didn’t happen. Having already lost the first ODI in a close manner and with the series on the line, the management decided to bench Tristian Stubbs, Kagiso Rabada, and Ottneil Baartman. With Keshav Maharaj already unavailable, the decision to rest them resulted in a series defeat.
Questions over team selection
In an exclusive chat with InspideSport, former South African cricketer Herschelle Gibbs expressed his dissatisfaction with the decision-making. Currently in India, playing in the Big Cricket League, Gibbs wasn’t pleased with the approach the management took by fielding a second-string team with the ICC Champions Trophy approaching.
“In a big game like that, you need to play your best team to stay in the series. If they lost, they were going to lose the series. It was perplexing and confusing. Why didn’t they put a stronger team in and try to save the series? There are going to be questions asked regarding the selection. You have to have some sort of pride; you can’t think a second-string team can beat a full-strength Pakistan side,” Gibbs said.
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