Proteas player ratings: Nasty Nortje emerges as leader, expensive Stubbs stumbles

The Proteas' disappointing exit from the ICC T20 World Cup, while still a shock to the system of many, probably exhibited various signs of happening.

One of those signs is simply how the majority of the squad underperformed.

News24 Sport hands out report cards for those players.

ANRICH NORTJE - 8 (11 wickets at strike rate of 9.5, economy 5.37)

There had been some reservations about the strapping quick's form going into the tournament and how South Africa would harness his pace alongside talismans like Rabada and Ngidi.

Instead, Nortje ended this tournament as the leader of the pack, magnificently taking control and twice claiming four-wicket hauls to end with 11 scalps and an outrageous strike rate of 9.5.

More impressively, his overall economy rate was an outstanding 5.37, epitomised by a brilliant spell of 1/10 in the collapse against the Netherlands.

So dramatic was his impact that one has to wonder where the Proteas would've been without him

LUNGI NGIDI - 7 (7 wickets at strike rate of 11.1, economy 8.9)

It was disappointing that he got sucked into the vortex of the Proteas' maddening implosion against Netherlands, but other than that Ngidi reinforced his status as one of the key members of the T20 attack.

No bowler in South Africa's squad delivers a better variety of slower balls and his intelligence, particularly in rocking Zimbabwe after they hit him for a six off his first ball, is truly impressive.

Any player that boasts figures of 4/29 against a powerful Indian batting line-up can rightly claim a fine pedigree. 

WAYNE PARNELL - 7 (5 wickets at strike rate of 19.2, economy 6.4)

For years, the former national Under-19 skipper had to operate under the spotlight because he was considered a prodigy and for close to a decade