Mark Boucher, former South African wicketkeeper and the current head coach of the national side, feels that white-ball captain Quinton de Kock workload is pretty high and CSA will look to appoint a different face to lead the Test team.
Former Test captain Faf du Plessis relinquished his leadership duties following the Proteas 1-3 drubbing against England in the last home summer and Cricket South Africa is yet to name a replacement for Faf in the longer format of the game.
“I think Quinny’s (Quinton de Kock) workload is pretty high. He showed good results in the T20s and the One-Dayers that he’s taken over. The last conversation I had with Quinny around this topic was in India where he felt that the workload was going to be a little high for him. Whoever is the captain will probably use Quinny’s brain to good effect as a keeper, you see things from probably the best angle. I’m sure he’ll add a lot of value just being Quinton de Kock within the Test team,” Mark Boucher was quoted as saying in the latest CSA press-release.
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“We will look to select someone else for the Test role”- Mark Boucher
“We will look to select someone else for the Test role. One of the things that we’ve learned from a side like England is a guy like Eoin Morgan comes in, and he’s got a lot of time to plan because he’s not involved in the Test team. So, when he goes away from white-ball cricket, he’s got an opportunity to sit down and plan, so when they sit down as a white ball team again, there’s an obvious direction of where they want to go,” Mark Boucher said.
“Sometimes when a player and especially the captain is involved in all three formats, it can be an automatic swap from format to the other because there’s not a lot of time in between. So that’s positive, you get a captain who can sit down and really plan what he wants, and he can try to drive that vision to the players, and it gives you some freshness when there’s a short turnaround time between the formats,” he said.
CSA, meanwhile is currently in a turmoil as the South African Confederation and Olympic Committee [SASCOC] took over the cricketing administration of the country, a few days ago, However, the SASCOC have maintained that their decision is in accordance with the laws in the country and there is no government interference of any regard.