the saffer captain syndrome

KP just made his debut hundred as captain.

Blah Blah.

Etc.

But, when he was on 95, and Paul Harris was darting them at him, Graeme Smith’s field was interesting.

Long on was out on the boundary.

Where was KP caught last innings, you should all know, as everyone has written about it, and Shaun Pollock has shown the replay a pornographic amount of times.

So why was the field back?

It should have been up to make KP hit over the top again, regardless of previous innings.

But this happened just last week, it would have been in KP’s mind, probably bouncing around a little bit.

Smith has this reputation of being a good captain.

I think I must blink when he does his best work.

This was just another silly error.

Whether he did it for defensive reasons or as an oversight it is not good enough as a test captain.

It would be unfair to bag one South African captain, and leave the other alone.

What was going on with the deep points yesterday?

The ball was almost never hit there, so it didn’t stop the boundaries.

All it seemed to do was allow the team quicker access to the ball after it was cover driven to the rope.

Deep point worked for Vaughan in 2005 because Australia play the ball through there a lot to take the pressure off.

But the current crop of South African batsman don’t play there nearly as often, so what is the point?

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