Mr 360 urges Proteas to strive for complete consistency
AB de Villiers has called on the current Proteas leadership group to stand up and lead from the front in the remainder of the home summer as South Africa host Sri Lanka for two Test this month and close the summer with a multi-format tour of Pakistan between December and January.
In white ball cricket, South Africa are coming from a 3-1 T20I series defeat to India last week, while the Test side is on a high after series victories in the Caribbean and Bangladesh recently. However, both teams are yet to display consistency and the ongoing home summer is an opportunity for the squads to get their acts together.
With consistency this summer, the Test squad will find themselves at Lord’s next year playing in the World Test Championship (WTC) final, while the white ball team will register much-needed series victories. De Villiers believes the consistency that South Africa is after stems from the leadership groups stepping up and leading from the front with performances this summer.
“The inconsistency is the one area I feel that we can still work on. I feel the talent is there, there’s no doubt about that in my mind,” De Villiers said at the Betway SA20 Rising Stars event yesterday.
“Inconsistency, I feel, comes from leadership and we need a couple of the experienced guys to start standing up now. I feel we are at that crossroads where to be consistent in all the formats, we need leaders.
“I think back at Graeme Smith when I was playing, he played an integral part in us being consistent as a unit because he was consistent as a captain and pushed us hard. So, we need that kind of leadership.
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