The Proteas’ new attacking mindset will challenge not just the players, but Victor Mpitsang and his national selection panel too.
“That’s the big challenge for the management and selectors, if they want to keep the consistency in the players, so we can play that way, the players need to believe and ride that wave. To play the brand of cricket is not the issue; it’s, will you be dropped? Will you keep your position when you fail?”
Klaasen cited his own career as an example, claiming that on a 2018 tour to Sri Lanka, after playing two games, he subsequently fell down the pecking order. “All the coaches wanted to play aggressive cricket. I didn’t come off in two games and was dropped and back to seventh in the queue. It was tough for me to come back and play that positive brand of cricket and at that stage I just gave up.
Klaasen explained that the Proteas’ new mindset isn’t actually that new. “With Boucher it was the same, it’s coming from different voices now. It’s just that everyone is now believing that we can play with this gameplan.” While Klaasen would appreciate more support, Bavuma reiterated that the selectors couldn’t supply it endlessly. “It's not ideal or reasonable as players that we are looking for comfort. International cricket is not about that. As much as we want to play a certain way, the responsibility is on you as a player to execute according to that way,” he said.
The more assertive approach will continue to be backed from within the squad Bavuma explained. “We need to keep speaking this language, that the environment keeps challenging us so that we are always on our toes, so that we are always trying to stretch ourselves. If we are able to dominate that process, the result will take care of itself.”
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