Proteas captain Du Plessis bemoans what might have been
Southampton — The way Dale Steyn hugged his teammates on the Rose Bowl’s windswept outfield during training on Tuesday, clearly something was up.
Steyn has not bowled in anger since April 21. He missed both of SA’s warm-up games and the matches against England and Bangladesh. There is an important point to be drawn from that sentence. A “second injury” implies the first one Steyn brought into the tournament with him is not the issue.Steyn has been off the field more than he had been on since breaking his bowling shoulder in December 2015. It is difficult to see why he should bother with continuing to play. No South African has more Test wickets, and at 35 he is not going to have another tilt at the World Cup.
But whether Steyn contents himself with T20 tiddlywinks or has another go at proper cricket is a different question for a different day. Right now, Du Plessis must find a way to meet the biggest challenge of his leadership. “You have to manage people’s confidence because that’s the thing, especially after the [Bangladesh] game, as professional cricketers, we want to do well and win games and we don’t want to go zero from two,” Du Plessis said.
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