Predicting the future Fab 5 in international cricket

5. Aiden Markram

Over the years, South African cricket is well known for producing once-in-a-generation cricketers, and even now in the gloomiest of their era, there’s Aiden Markram getting fostered up for soaring.

The win in the U19 World Cup in 2014 both as a batsman and as a skipper had majorly highlighted him to be the next big thing in the country, and with Markram now being an established entity across formats, very soon he might also unveil his initial peak.

Especially in Test cricket, where Markram’s average has now entered in the early 40s certainly indicates a prodigious career that the cricketer will have in the long haul. Even in a white-ball setup, there are enough glimpses of Markram ending his teething problems which overall in general majorly assures a cricketing career that might make him eligible to compete for the next Fab 5 club.

Undoubtedly to highly soar in international cricket, a batter must be well accomplished both technically and mentally. However, with Markram’s biggest deficiency being his inconsistency, the cricketer has to latch upon his temperamental issues.

All in all, Markram, in particular, has every pedigree to make it into the next Fab club of any flair especially in Test cricket wherein as an opener he is exceeding people’s expectations.