I don't know why South Africa batted so strangely on their own pitch. South Africa knew their pitch condition very well. As the pitch was not bowling friendly, South Africa might have been able to provide a bigger target if they had batted first. The batsmen could not play well in batting for the target of 227 runs. The batsmen were under a lot of pressure. This team has the ability to score more than 200 if they play pressure free. However, the Australian bowlers bowled well. Tanveer Sanga and Stoinis managed to pick up 4 and 3 wickets respectively. A good performance by the batsmen and bowlers combined led Australia to an impressive 111-run win.
Out of the four Australians making their debut (Aaron Hardie, Matthew Short, Spencer Johnson and Tanveer Sangha), everyone performed well making significant contributions. Johnson and Sangha shared 5 wickets between them. And while batting, Hardie and Short made significant contributions. On the other hand, the two South African debutants (Gerald Coetzee and Dewald Brevis) disappointed their fans. A lot was expected from Brevis, but he got out for just 5 runs. And Coetzee was expensive when he opened the bowling.
Australia definitely did not start well, but the fifth wicket partnership was able to steady the ship for Australia. And yes, every debutante had a good performance. But I did not understand the approach of South Africa. I think they were just trying to score quickly without caring too much about the wickets in hand. That is also the reason why they lost wickets at regular intervals.
South Africa have observed their pitch condition well and they decided to field first as wickets are helpful because winning the toss and fielding first will make it easier for Africa to play with the target later on, but they did not know that Australia would be able to score so many runs by batting in the first innings. African bowlers could not bowl controlled which is why South Africa lost by such a margin in the first T20 match. There are still two matches left in the series so South Africa still have time and opportunity to do well in this series. We expect South Africa to work on the mistakes that were made in the first match and do better in the second match.
South African selectors have their hands tied. As per the transformation quotas, they need to select a fixed number of colored players and it doesn't matter whether they are performing well or not. One example is the selection of Temba Bavuma to the team. He faced just two balls and got out for a duck, off the bowling of Marcus Stoinis. He didn't played any competitive cricket for the last 5 months and was directly dropped in for this match against Australia. Anyway, they have two more matches remaining, and both of them will be played at the same venue (Kingsmead in Durban).
Yes, I agree that Black people contain better genetics, that is the reason that most of the time black people are generally better at most things physically rather than other races. Whatever it does not mean black people will not face any problems in life and never be out of form. I wanna say if he failed to retain his form, he should not be playing. I am sure they have other players ready to play in his place. Those players should be given a chance regardless of skin colour. This is simply not being fair.
