Kridaya Cricket Blog

This is who:

Amy:

A bunch of the most hilarious, stupidly, chokingly hysterical chokers.

12th Man:

Plenty has changed in the world in the last decade. [...] And then we have South Africa, choking like they always do in the knockout stages of a world tournament, to assure us that all is in order in this world.

Ankit Poddar:

South Africa reached the semi finals on account of their experience at IPL, and then lost it, on account of the same! A case in point being Duminy’s experience with MI! But more importantly they choked again! How I wish I had betted on it!

JC:

So according to the South African world view, everyone is a choker except the ultimate winner of the tournament. We live in a world full of chokers. Chokers to the left of me, chokers to the right.

But on the other hand, the rest of the world didn’t enter this tournament as raging favourites, playing unbeaten until crunch time in the semi-finals. Nope, Graeme Smith can spin it anyway he likes it. But the C-word is imprinted on his and his teammates’ foreheads more firmly than ever.

South Africa choking in a semi final is almost as good as Australia getting knocked out of the tournament early on. Not as good, obviously. I didn’t think they would blow it this time, I thought they had a good enough team and enough form to carry them through. Happily I was wrong and we saw the choke-meister generals do it one more time.

South Africa have choked again, Kallis played too slow and South Africa’s power hitters didn’t get enough balls to finish the job.

And a lot more. But the Proteas have their supporters too: Straight Points and King Cricket believe it was just better cricket by the Pakistan team.