TravellingMackem
Winger
Port Elizabeth wickets are like this. They generally also reverse swing, and they picked two out and out quicks for that purpose.
Keshav Maharaj has 100 wickets @28.44 and has taken 9 wickets in an innings. Elgar is a handy occasional spinner. They probably figured they had the edge in the spin department.
Until you watch them bat last time out in India and realise they wouldn’t have an edge over an under 9 girls team in the spin department.
Pretty easy for them to change the wicket if they wanted to - we slam English counties for this exact thing test after test.