Proteas interim coach Enoch Nkwe is highly positive about the local talent that has excelled during the current Mzansi Super League campaign.
Nkwe was the first coach to lift the MSL trophy when he guided the Jozi Stars to the inaugural title last season.
He has since graduated to the national team after also winning the CSA T20 Challenge and 4-Day Domestic championships.
It was a tough initiation for Nkwe on the recent tour of India, where the Proteas were whitewashed 3-0 in the Test series.
However, Nkwe did oversee a credible 1-1 T20 series draw.
Many of those players utilised during that T20 series have continued their good form in the MSL, while there have also been others that have enhanced their reputations.
ADAPTABLE: Sisanda Magala. Picture: Ryan Wilkisky/BackpagePix.
And the coach says: “I think having been in the domestic structures, I kind of know the players doing the rounds.
“But for me it was more about watching them perform in different teams and different environments.
“Take a guy like Sisanda Magala. He has moved from the Eastern Cape to the Blitz [In Cape Town] and still performed really well.
“Equally Kyle Verreynne. He wasn’t picked initially and then was mostly a back-up player, but then he comes in and plays an innings of the highest quality like he played for the Paarl Rocks.
“Bjorn Fortuin too, obviously I know him very well from the Lions, and he just continues to go from strength-to-strength.”