All down to the Proteas hitters

Now that South Africa’s bowling attack has more than reinforced their well-known abilities‚ it’s the batting lineup that needs to state its intentions in the next two ODIs.

Adelaide (Friday) and Hobart (Sunday)‚ the next destinations in the short Australian limitedovers junket‚ should be better than the green Perth Stadium springboard of a surface that unsettled Australia’s creaky batting order.

The small chase put the difficult conditions out of the game and the bright start between Reeza Hendricks and Quinton de Kock ended the game quite early as a contest.

Surety isn’t something South Africa’s various batting units have provided since AB de Villiers’s retirement.

While the Sri Lankan ODI series was a qualified success‚ 300 was only crossed once, even though the chasing was convincing in the first two ODIs.

The Zimbabwe series provided no answers from a batting perspective.

Even though the surfaces in England for next year’s World Cup will be different as compared to Australia’s pitches‚ Australia’s pacemen will provide a different test that only England and India can throw at South Africa from a bowling perspective.

The next ODIs will only be in January against Pakistan.

By then‚ Gibson will have to have settled on what works from a batting unit.