Kepler Wessels

Oh, mate, there'd be probably half a dozen there.

You know, look, I've got to play against Greg Chappell and Kepler Wessels, uh, when he was playing for Queensland.

Very, very tough competitor.

Um, John Stals, who I first played against in the early days for Victoria.

Considerably more than anybody else.

So anyway, I mean, we're banging the same old drum all the time, aren't we? But I was speaking to, and I shouldn't name them because we're just chatting, but a former South African and a former Australian player who played out here in the past and- Was it Kepler Wessels? They're just sha- share a couple- [laughs] No, there was, there were two players.

Oh, there were two players.

There were two Ps in this pod.

Bowled Morkel.

They've had tough captains like Kepler Wessels.

A magnificent performance from Kepler Wessels, a century.

And Graeme Smith.

Outstanding stuff from Graeme Smith.

general?No, definitely, definitely something special about the Australia series.

And it goes back to, I mean, if you think of when we came back from, um, or we were admitted into playing international cricket, it was Kepler Wessels who led us, um, who'd played for Australia, playing for South Africa.

Um, so that Australian setup and, and the standards that they set in the '90s and, and 2000s, like we would have experienced, they, they were kind of the benchmark.

So all those serieses were, were tough.

And we were op- opposite ends of the socialist scale, but the same age at that stage.

When I walked into the Australian dressing room in '93, Kepler Wessels had said, "Take a beer, sit down, and speak to the other guys about touring England," because we'd only been to Sri Lanka really on the tour.

What's it like, you know, in the West Indies, um, coming to the UK, and everybody else in that dressing room I didn't feel like I could talk to.

There was Mr.

Mm.

So even if you're moving, by getting some body weight going in, in the direction towards the target, I'd have a better chance of hitting.

So Bob was the first guy that even though he, you know, our, our fielding as a team was really strong because it was something that we had worked on in the early nine with Kepler Wessels.

Um, but Bob Woolmer was the guy...