Once again though it was with the ball that the Proteas failed.
For the second time in less than a week Mark Boucher bemoaned the performance of South Africa’s bowlers, saying they cost the side the first T20 International against Australia at the Wanderers on Friday night.
Australia hammered South Africa by 107 runs - the largest defeat in terms of runs suffered by the Proteas in this format. Almost everything went wrong for the home team in front of 20 487 spectators after Quinton de Kock had won the toss and asked the Australians to bat. The visitors smashed 196/6 taking advantage of some awful bowling from the hosts. “It was a really bad loss,” Boucher remarked.
South Africa’s batsmen folded under the pressure against a far more disciplined Australian attack, and were dismissed for 89, the lowest total by a Proteas side in the game’s shortest format. “We dropped a few catches. It wasn’t a good night at all, from the fielding, to the bowling and that carried into the batting.”
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