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Proteas’ Brits reaping the rewards
Cape Times
|September 19, 2025
FORMER England Men’s coach Andy Flower often said that playing spin is all in the head but it’s not brain surgery.
Perhaps it came as second nature to him, judging by his Test average of 117.14 in India, but it certainly wasn't for many of the England batters he coached during his tenure.
Or for that matter the Proteas’ Women’s team.
Combating slow bowlers on the spinning surfaces has long been the Achilles heel for the Proteas, and particularly for inform opener Tazmin Brits when she started her international career.
Brits learnt her cricket in Potchefstroom where the surfaces resemble billiard tables that allowed her to play through the line against the seam bowlers.
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