6 reasons why South Africa have been winning despite the absence of AB de Villiers

#3 Lack of Off-Spinners

Zampa is not as effective against the left-handed batsmen

The South African top six has four left-handers- Quinton De Kock, JP Duminy, Rilee Rossouw and David Miller- none of whom are prolific players of spin. The only mainstream spinner in the Aussie squad is Adam Zampa, who is a leg spinner that turns the ball into the left-handers. They have utilised the part-time offie, Travis Head, sparsely but he is just not good enough to fill in for a proper spinner.

Australia might be left rueing their decision to leave Glenn Maxwell out of the side. Apart from his ability to smash big sixes, his off-spin against a crowd of left-handers would have been more than handy. Another option would have been to include a frontline off-spinner in Nathan Lyon, but Zampa has been just too good in recent times to be ignored.

Duminy, Miller and Rossouw are infamous for their weaknesses against off spin bowling and considering they have played vital roles in at least one of the three matches in the series emphasises the fact that Australia miss an off break bowler.