World Cup, South Africa team preview: Bowl the opposition out is the mantra
The HinduSouth Africa has a plan for this World Cup and it’s a simple one — bowl the opposition out. READ| World Cup story in numbers: It's raining fours and sixes Gibson describes Kagiso Rabada and Lungi Ngidi as “two of the most exciting fast bowlers I’ve ever worked with” and, of course, 40-year-old Imran Tahir’s credentials have been proven for over a decade. “Their job is to take wickets — it is the job of the top seven to score the runs.” READ| World Cup story in numbers: Ties and one that hurt South Africa One of those top seven hasn’t been scoring many runs at all in recent months. For many observers, South Africa’s best team might only happen by accident with the ‘seventh’ batsman, Aiden Markram, opening alongside de Kock and the unpredictable but dauntingly effective Morris fitting in to one of the fast bowling slots.