Writing on the wall for Bouch?

Bouch has been dropped for ABdV in next T20.

"AB de Villiers will keep wicket for South Africa during the limited-overs leg of their tour of West Indies instead of Mark Boucher, whose place in the team is now uncertain. Graeme Smith, the South Africa captain, said the new selection panel led by Andrew Hudson was trying out new ideas ahead of the 2011 World Cup, and having de Villiers keep gave him more options.

"AB will be starting with the gloves in the limited-overs matches," Smith said ahead of the first Twenty20 international in Antigua. "There is a new selection committee and a few new ideas. We only have something like 15 ODIs before we get to India for the World Cup, so we have to make every one of them count."

Boucher, 33, has been a near permanent fixture in South Africa's XI across formats since he made his debut in 1997 and has played 131 Tests, 291 ODIs and 25 Twenty20s. Smith said the absence of Boucher's experience in the line-up would have to be made up by the rest of the players."

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Great servant to SAffie cricket, but is it nearly the end for him? ABdV has said many times, he don't wanna keep, but he may not have a choice.

Trev will be happy to see the end of Bouch's "I think I might cry" look when the chips are down for the Yarps.

Early days to write the fat git off yet Id've thought.
Still a decent keeper and does collect runs when it matters.

Giving the perrenial cheat AB the gloves will make the umpires' lives a nightmare ... he'd go up for everything that passed within a foot of the bat!
Let's hope the SACB take that particular issue under advisement from the Elite Umpires Panel ... it's bad enough with Boucher appealing once an over ... but with ABd ... gawd help us.

He'll continue to play tests, but he should have been dumped from the shorter stuff 2-3 years ago.

All he does these days is dump ....
I blame the biltong ...

The shorter forms of the game would appear to call for batsmen who can keep a bit rather than the reverse. It increases the potential for flexibility in the team.

The usual BS.

The batting lineup has been devalued. As I type this Botha has come in at 6 and got a duck. Straight after Duminy's duck.

And yes Red. Nice tits.

The writing is on the wall . . . and it says, Fark off, Bouch, you fat, whinging, girly qunt!

Can't quite make out taccy's opinion on Bouch from that post. Can you be more specific please tac.

Given that a bowler can only send down 4 overs max in t20, I suspect that as it evolves, specialist bowlers as well as specialist keepers will be very rare beasts in t20. If you can have 7 or 8 blokes in your team who can bowl 'a bit' it might give you the requisite variety if one of them starts getting tonked.

10 players should HAVE to bowl 2 overs each . . .

Ah, the old indoor cricket rule.

Was always fun to be batting when the women on a mixed team came on to bowl their underarm stuff.

Zat wrote:Ah, the old indoor cricket rule.

Was always fun to be batting when the women on a mixed team came on to bowl their underarm stuff.

Sounds like Derbyshire to me!

Zat wrote:Given that a bowler can only send down 4 overs max in t20, I suspect that as it evolves, specialist bowlers as well as specialist keepers will be very rare beasts in t20. If you can have 7 or 8 blokes in your team who can bowl 'a bit' it might give you the requisite variety if one of them starts getting tonked.

I disagree with this. It is still vital to take wickets in T20, and to strangle the run-rate (which builds the pressure for wickets). And bowling is still equally important as batting because however many runs you score you have to defend them.

England won by picking their best spinner, 3 of their best seamers (2 of whom happen to be able to bat reasonably competently), and their best slow-medium filth bowler. Australia got to the final with their out and out quicks like Tait, Nannes and Johnson.

Teams like India who relied on all rounders who bowl 'a bit' like Yusuf Pathan and Ravinder Jadeja got tonked. As did Jayasuriya, Shane Watson and many other batsmen trying to do a bowlers job.

'tis still only early days in t20 Gaz, you may be right, I just have a feeling that future teams in t20 may wind up with two or three specialist bowlers in most matches.

I think the very short span of the games counters zat's theory, there just wouldn't be any need for so many batsmen in 20 overs, but yeah I think the number of specialist bowlers will decrease.