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What language does the black population in SA speak primarily?
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Afrikaans I believe.What language does the black population in SA speak primarily?
I would think that's actually pretty common knowledge.Afrikaans is also the language of like 3/4 of the Coloured population too. It's not solely a White thing.
That being said, I do think a lot of the world mistakenly think the Black population in South Africa is similar in number to (for example) Native Americans or Australian Aborigines (true minorities at present, despite being the Indigenous peoples of tgeir land), and fails to realise that 80% of South Africa's 58 million population are Black, and a further 12% are either Coloured or Asian. By comparison, Whites are the significant minority in population in South Africa.
Afrikaans I believe.
I'm a huge fan of Abbas but he was going to struggle coming back from injury.
South Africa are scary, they have the best fast bowling in the world and it's not even close honestly.
Olivier is your guy you can bring in to do the job? Yeah, he's averaging a lazy 17 in test match cricket..
Afrikaans I believe.
I'm a huge fan of Abbas but he was going to struggle coming back from injury.
South Africa are scary, they have the best fast bowling in the world and it's not even close honestly.
Olivier is your guy you can bring in to do the job? Yeah, he's averaging a lazy 17 in test match cricket..
SA definitely has the best pace arsenal in the world but I'm not sold on Olivier yet. I know he's averaging low but he seems to bowl too short too often and not pitching the ball up much. That style of bowling might be counterproductive when there is movement. I think Ngidi is a bit better than Olivier, just from early signs. Rabada is a superstar, Steyn even in this age is still a gun and Philander is an accurate prober as always. So SA will be very hard to beat especially at home.
It troubles me that Supersport still produce a product with an Afrikaans language option. No one there doesn’t speak English - it’s easily the closest they have to an official language (or a compromise language.)
The only people who still want to use Afrikaans are arseholes who equate it with a long-deceased sense of superiority. I guess apartheid still lives, both in the existence of an alternate language option, and in the knowledge that only a tiny fraction of South Africa’s black population can afford pay television.
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This is true but as you say, you could say it about a lot of bowlers. If not for injury and suspension Warne probably would have taken 800, for example. McGrath probably would have taken 600. Who knows how many wickets Ryan Harris (IMO one of the very best Aussie quicks of the past 30 years) ends up with if is his body doesn't let him down so often.I know you could say this about a lot of bowlers but if it weren’t for injury he’d have at least another 100 scalps, probably more
This is true but as you say, you could say it about a lot of bowlers. If not for injury and suspension Warne probably would have taken 800, for example. McGrath probably would have taken 600. Who knows how many wickets Ryan Harris (IMO one of the very best Aussie quicks of the past 30 years) ends up with if is his body doesn't let him down so often.
While we can speculate endlessly of course, projected stat if not for *insert injury/suspension* can't ever be used as an argument to boost someone's all-time standing.
Would be a fun debate steyn or McGrath the better bowler.. how dale got masood out was world class.
Australia of 1990ish through to 2015 isn't far out of the conversation either.I was having a discussion with someone today about under-valued cricketers and two that came to mind were Kallis and Harris. Kallis obviously isn’t underrated, but having guys like them that could, in his case, bowl 10 overs a day and chip in with a wicket, and Harris who could keep the rate to 2 an over, just allowed Smith to unleash this barrage of high quality quicks one after the other and let them go as hard as they could. Now Maharaj has become that sort of role player too.
Of course in this test with more help for the quicks, they don’t even have to bother - they just bring in a 5th choice quick, after Morkel has retired, Abbott has left and Ngidi has been injured, and go even harder.
It’s f***ing joyful to watch.
Sooner or later - maybe it will only happen in retrospect when the era has passed - the question needs to be asked: does SA’s absolute production line of quicks over the last 20 years match, or surpass that of the West Indies from 75-95?
Donald
Pollock
Ntini
Steyn
Morkel
Philander
Rabada
Marshall
Holding
Garner
Roberts
Croft
Ambrose
Walsh
Bishop
It’s often said that the guys who couldn’t play for the WI either due to being behind the superstars or the rebel tours, were good enough to walk into every other side in the world.
Realistically the support cast for SA over the years probably could too.
The likes of Fannie De Villiers, the injury cruelled Brett Schultz, Abbott etc - they’d stack up pretty well to guys like Wayne Daniel, Sylvester Clarke, Patrick Patterson, the two unrelated Benjamins, Franklyn Stephenson etc.
Hell, even Kallis, I’m absolutely certain, if he wasn’t a batsman and put all his energy into bowling, had the tools to be a genuine mid-20s averaging quick. His seam position was beautiful and off a tiny run up he generated real pace.
Afrikaans I believe.
I'm a huge fan of Abbas but he was going to struggle coming back from injury.
South Africa are scary, they have the best fast bowling in the world and it's not even close honestly.
Olivier is your guy you can bring in to do the job? Yeah, he's averaging a lazy 17 in test match cricket..