Proteas World Cup woes: It's not choking, it's panic
Panic is a plausible way of understanding what went wrong in England in 1999 when SA had perhaps its best side and most realistic chance of winning.
THE ART OF LOSING – WHY THE PROTEAS CHOKE AT THE CRICKET WORLD CUP|
by Luke Alfred
(Zebra Press)
Asked whether South Africa's failure in the T-20 World Cup in 2010 had been the result of choking, former South African fast bowler Craig Matthews testily slapped down the interviewer: "No, we didn't play well enough to choke."
Matthews was right to bridle: the term "choking" ought to be banned from all discussion of South African underachievement in the shorter forms of international cricket.
