South Africa need 'singlebloodymindedness': Shukri Conrad

If you’re singleminded you’re able to focus intensely on what you need to do. If you’re bloodyminded you’re stubborn, sometimes not in a good way. Shukri Conrad wants his players to be both in the wake of their thumping by 214 runs in the first Test against Australia at Kingsmead. So much so that he invented a word to make his point. “Aiden showed us in the second innings that there’s nothing fancy about Test cricket,” Conrad told reporters after the match ended on Tuesday (October 13). “It’s that singlebloodymindedness — ‘I’ve got to bat for a day-and-a-half, irrespective of what it looks like’. Some of our batters can take a leaf out of his book.” Aiden Markram was entrenched at the crease for two minutes short of six hours and faced 237 balls for his 75.