Gerald Coetzee

Yeah, for me, I mean, j- just look at the bowling lineup of South Africa.

There's no Rabada, there's no Gerald Coetzee.

Um, uh, Anrich Nortje is coming after a long gap.

Ryan Mulder is your third fast bowler, and he, he picked up two wickets.

... consistently clicking 90, 90 mile an hour.

Um, and Gerald Coetzee, who's come back, uh, into the one-day setup and, and bowled with a bit of hostility in the, in the one days.

So there, there's some serious genuine pace bowling options that South Africa have, and also, uh, they've got the spin option.

So I, I think overall it, it just feels as South Africa have got all bases covered.

Um, but no, they were just much more controlled today and gave themselves a little bit more time.

I mean, even though Ollie Peake was struggling a little bit about, against the pace of Gerald Coetzee, um, same with Cooper Connolly.

Um, he, Peake still managed to get himself to a decent score, 40, 40-odd.

Um, and then that sort of laid the platform for, for Carey, Green, Renshaw, um, and a little flourish from-

Maharaj in particular.

Gerald Coetzee bowled pretty nicely, that pace and that lift, and then the yorker that knocked over Cooper Connolly.

That was one of the most fun moments of the day, round the wicket scrambled seam, um, completely perfect length at the base of the stumps.

Yeah.

So I mean, hard to, to see them not keeping him in the mix if he could play one of the three games, but at the same time, they've stacked that squad with seven quicks.

You know, you've, you've got everybody from Gerald Coetzee and Kolben Bosch to Marco Jansen and Dane Paterson.

So, uh, there's definitely reserves, and Kwena Mapaka, the youngster, unfortunately he is also out.

Okay.

And bizarrely, you know, Bosch and, and Jansen will feature in, in their 15 definitely.

Um, and it was Gerald Coetzee who, who stole the headlines today.

I thought he bowled the best out of the seamers.

But good to know they've got depth in the spinners.

Sort it out.

Uh, I, I've got in my Hall of Fame, uh, Gerald Coetzee [chuckles] coming out, nailing six over cover first ball, and they're just having-

What a shot

... a complete, a complete air swing at the next three.