World Cup 2019: Team-wise one blunder made by the selectors
Selectors have taken some tough decisions while picking the World Cup squads but few players deserved to be in the team.
5. South Africa – Not picking Reeza Hendricks
There was a toss-up between Hashim Amla and Reeza Hendricks ahead of South Africa’s World Cup squad selection and the selectors preferred experience to leave out the latter. Without any doubt, Amla has been one of the modern day greats and has done exceptionally well since his debut in 2008. But his recent form hasn’t been great and the batsman looked completely out of form in recent times.
Amongst the 48 batsmen who have scored at least 500 ODI runs since 2018, Amla languishes at number 37. He has scored just 529 runs in 16 innings at an average of 35.26 in this period with just one hundred and 3 fifties. He has as many as 7 scores of below-20 in this time-frame.
The young Reeza Hendricks has performed quite well in domestic cricket and was also the third highest run scorer in the Mzansi Super League. He scored 412 runs in 9 innings at an impressive average of 58.86. Also with pitches in England being flat, Hendricks’ positive game could have been the key for the African team.
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