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Aiden Markram, Heinrich Klaasen and David Miller come loaded with a marauders’ reputation for the South African middle order. But the hype doesn’t always translate to hope.
They severely depend on one of the openers to click in tall chases. Else, the mounting strike-rate pressure triggers indecisiveness and impatience in the middle order of Markram, Klaasen and Miller. After trying to straddle anchor/attack duties for a brief while, they then tend to pre-meditate their big shots a touch frantically in trying to accelerate, which further upsets the apple cart. England who neatly strangled the West Indian torso of Nicholas Pooran and Andre Russell, are bound to exploit this brittleness, even if Saffers don’t get drawn into one of their chase-botching ways and bat first. READ MORE
