The Proteas bowling department has to become more ruthless and learn how to bowl out the tail quicker at the Cricket World Cup.
Proteas fast bowler Lungi Ngidi celebrates a wicket during their Cricket World Cup win over England over the past weekend. Picture: Alex Davidson-ICC/ICC via Getty Images
Although all of their wins have been by massive margins, they should have all been bigger, with the Proteas struggling to remove the tail in almost every game.Only in their opener against Sri Lanka did the Proteas arguably not falter against the tail, although even on that occasion they would have expected a bigger win.
Against Australia the Proteas managed a solid 311/7 batting first, and although they had the Australians in massive strife on 70/6, they allowed the last four wickets to add 107-runs to the total.In their match against England, having posted 399/7, the Proteas bowlers then blew away their top order having them on 68/6 and 100/8 at stages, before allowing a 70-run last wicket stand, after Reece Topley was unable to bat.
In the match the Proteas were on target to bowl the Netherlands out cheaply, with them in big trouble on 112/6, only for them to fight back to 245/8 at the end of their 50 overs, which was too much for the Proteas batters as they failed for the only time so far scoring 207 all out.
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