Durban’s Super Giants coach Lance Klusener has blasted the Kingsmead surface after his team were blown for 86 in their first completed home Betway SA20 game of the season. Persistent rain in Durban had washed away the opening game at Kingsmead just a few days ago and the groundstaff has been under heavy pressure to prepare the ground for Tuesday’s clash against Joburg Super Kings. It certainly showed with the surface offering both the JSK spinners and pacemen significant assistance after DSG captain Aiden Markram won the toss and elected to bat.
DSG old boy Prenelan Subrayen was in rampant form as he outspun the much-vaunted DSG top-order consisting of Devon Conway, Kane Williamson and Jos Buttler to finish with figures of 3/16. Seamer Richard Gleeson then mopped up the tail, as he claimed an incredible 3/2, as DSG faltered with the bat. “Yeah, it hurts a little bit actually.
Awful surface,” Klusener said frankly. “I thought batting first, batting second, that’s not really what the doctor ordered. “I think if we look back we could have maybe just made a few more runs somehow and then the game would have been tighter, dropped a few catches which don’t help. But yeah, not a great surface.”
