Sam McClure

So yeah, it's, it's incredible.

They are just committed to him being a part of it.

They think, well, that he has, he's got 11 test hundreds.

He's got two one day international hundreds.

Both have come in South Africa and,

where he averages 61 in one day cricket and has his highest strike rate, I think, of any region that he's gone to.

It's like 95 where his career rate's under 85 and it's going further south in this recent run of form that he's had.

It's been under 70.

They're certain it can work.

He's done it in a World Cup final.

They think in South Africa with, for want of a better term, the Bond squad up front, right of head and Bison and Inglis in that power play, they need a firewall in case they lose two for squat.

And if the ball's nipping and bouncing and swinging early against high pace and the games are going to be back-ended in terms of all the scoring that's going to be done between overs 20 and 50 or overs 30 and 50 where you need a bit of resource at that point,

they might need manas to get through that period now all the evidence suggests based on recent test form that that's might not happen the way he's been playing um it's very clear he's very much in his own head about how he's going to survive what he's doing technically and he's forgetting about

Again, because that was what it was.

Yeah, well, I don't know whether he has.

They've definitely tried.

They got denied in Dakar, actually.

They tried to play golf and they weren't allowed to for security reasons or something like that.

All right.

Huge.