Cricket has been changed much after the pandemic has hit the world in 2019. With new venues, new rules and guidelines the way to approach cricket has complete different now from the past.
With bio bubble secure the players and officials needs to allow themselves in quarantine before any international match schedule by cricket boards across the world. England and Pakistan were the first teams to resume Cricket last year with test cricket followed by the other nations. Still after the quarantine measures the matches has been cancelled due to the players getting test positive for covid-19.
With South Africa has start their campaign of World Cup T20 with two wins earlier three South African players take us to bio bubble secure of the team in UAE.
“What are we watching?” Rassie van Der Dussen asks his wife, Lara.
“No, not too much at the moment,” is the verdict. “We’re in between series so you’ve caught me at a difficult time.”
With such tight schedule Netflix would be a time saver for us.
“I’m sure in the next few days I’ll put some time into thinking about it. “It’ll be a series, we tend to fall asleep in front of movies”. says Van der Dussen
While talking about his wife and himself to the team at Betway he was pleased with the welcome he received.
“We do spend a lot of time in the room, but we have a big TV and a lovely living space.
“You’ve got to keep active, obviously. I’ve got lots of fitness toys to play with and there are facilities in the hotel.”
Dwaine Pretorius, Van der Dussen, Keshav Maharaj are in the quarantine who were joined by Quinton de Kock and Kaigso Rabada who were part of IPL 2021 earlier.
Mark Boucher is the head coach of South Africa team who has been looking up for operations alongside JP Duminy and Charl Langeveldt as the coaching staff.
Although the staff has been new but in the recent one year the team has shown immense transformation in their Performances which is a good sign for them.
“We’ve had a good year,” says Van Der Dussen. “We’ve been in different conditions and we’ve adapted really well.
“A year ago we were certainly less experienced. We’re in a good place now.”
With captaincy being looked after Temba Bavuma who has been great in his captaincy abilities.
“It came as a surprise to me,” he says. “There was plenty of initial anxiety and fear, I guess, as to how I could take the team to new heights, but actually I’ve really enjoyed it.
“I’m lucky that I’ve played with lots of the guys from school level so the understanding is there and the respect is there. I feel that they are behind me.”
With major tournaments like the T-20 World Cup before the big event like 2023 World Cup South Africa wants to perform Like predators like they were in the Graeme Smith era.
