Embattled Proteas coach Mark Boucher takes positives from ODI series defeat to Sri Lanka BraMahlatse
There is still a long way to go before the 2023 World Cup qualification process is completed, but the Proteas are becoming increasingly pressured as they are now sitting ninth on the standings.
“You have to look at where we are playing, we were playing on some tough conditions,” said the coach whose team have not won an ODI series since beating Australia at home last March.“We came here missing a couple of senior batters, but I thought in the first game we put up a good fight. If I look at the series as a whole, in the first game we were given the opportunity to win the series because we were in control of the run chase and slipped up in a period of five overs.
During the last two ODIs, sharp focus was put on the balance of the Proteas, with suggestions that the team was a batter short.“We were always going to go into the game with two spinners and in the second game we decided to go with three. Whether we got that decision right or not because of the rain is another story, but I think Anrich Nortjé could have been a handful on that wicket.
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