Olivier great, but team won series

Proteas coach Ottis Gibson was reluctant to single out player of the series Duanne Olivier as the man who made the difference in the 3-0 whitewash over Pakistan, and instead credited their success to team effort.

The fast bowler ended the series as the leading wickettaker with an impressive 24 scalps, and he was a constant threat to the Pakistani batsmen, who struggled to cope with his consistent pace and bounce.

SA beat Pakistan by 107 runs in the third and final Test match at the Wanderers to leapfrog England and New Zealand into second spot on the ICC Test rankings.

The defeat saw Pakistan slip one place below Sri Lanka to seventh.

“In this game‚ Quinny [Quinton de Kock] made a brilliant hundred. He is a fantastic player for us‚” said Gibson after the match.

“From our point of view‚ Olivier got a lot of wickets, but our dressing room is not a one-man show.

“You can see by the performances that we had‚ Hash [Hashim Amla] in this game was as much the difference as Quinny because he scored the runs in both innings.”

“In the second innings he allowed Quinny to play the way he did to get a hundred.

However‚ Gibson was full of praise for Olivier and admitted that his match-winning performances gives him and the selectors a headache for the coming two-match Test series against Sri Lanka. –