And the Chocking Continues

And the Choking continues.................‎

South African Cricketers are known for their commitment…In their team they have match winners like Gibbs, Devilliers, Kallis,Smith, and the list goes on….... . Many upcoming teams follow their way of playing and inmitate tactics they follow…..But, the known fact is they have hard luck while playing in World Events like ICC World cup, ICC twenty20, ICC Champions Trophy…..

ICC Cricket World Cup 1992 (Semifinal England Vs South Africa)
Rain interrupted play for 12 minutes with South Africa 231/6 off 42.5 overs and the target is 253 (So, actually south africa need 22 runs from 43 Balls).Rain interrupted play before the last ball of the 43rd over. South Africa then required 22 runs off 13 balls for victory. With 2 overs lost to rain, the target was reduced to 21 runs from only 1 ball. The scoreboard says it all, as South Africa's inaugural World Cup campaign comes to a bitter end Its not an end ….. Its just a starting… the bad luck continues…..

ICC Cricket World Cup 1996 (Quarter-Final South Africa Vs West Indies)

After 10 Successive wins they lost to West Indies in a Quarter-Final match...!!!


ICC Cricket World Cup 1999 Semi-final (Australia Vs South Africa)

When 9 runs needed of last over … South African Batsman Lance Klusener scored 2 boundaries of 2 balls in the bowling of Damien Fleming…So, they just need 1 run of 4 balls…. And only one wicket in hand….. Atlast they got run out….Match tied….Australia progressed to the final because they had beaten South Africa in their encounter in the Super Sixes.

ICC Champions Trophy, 2002 Semi-final 1(India Vs South Africa)

India : 261/9 target: 262 runs from 50 overs for South Africa… SA started welll …. They are .. 192/1 at one stage... Gibbs…116 Kallis … 97 New partnership record for the 2nd wicket for South Africa against India - The previous record was 120 by G Kirsten & DJ Cullinan at Hamilton in 1994/95 HH Gibbs retired hurt at 192/1 (116*, 119 balls, 16x4) But at last they managed only 251/6 out of 50 Overs… and lost by 10 runs… Really heart breaking for fanss.s……and it's not ended still…..

ICC Cricket World Cup 2003 Srilanka Vs South Africa (Quarter-Finals)

Sri Lanka268/9 (50 overs) Match shortened due to rain; Duckworth-Lewis revised target to win: 230 runs in 45 overs for South Africa. Before the South Africa v Sri Lanka game was delayed and ultimately called off for rain, the South African team gave to the batsmen a table showing the equivalent number of runs required after each ball, to equal the Sri Lankan total, for the remainder of the match assuming that rain would conclude the game after that particular ball. One ball before the rain interruption began, South Africa scored the requisite number of runs shown on the table. On the next ball it appeared that the batsmen could take a run but they decided not to take a risk, believing that their table showed the number of runs to win, not to tie. Thus the match ended in a tie, and South Africa lost all mathematical chance of proceeding to the Super Six.So, South Africa had been Kicked off from the World Cup 2003

ICC World Twenty20 2007 (India Vs South Africa) Semi-Final Qualifying match

India Socred 153/5 (20 overs) Even though South Africa Lost the Match they will be in Semi-finals …. They just have to score 126 that's it…. But they scored only 116/9 in their 20 Overs…..!!!!!!! After three teams finished on equal points New Zealand and India advanced to the semi-finals by having higher net run rates. The hosts, South Africa, were eliminated as a result of this match.

ICC World Twenty20 2009 Semi-Final 1(Pakistan Vs South Africa)

Its all past… and now after winning all the matches in the tournment ( warm up's -2 group -2 super eights -3 total -7) South Africa lost to pakistan in 1st Semi- Final…..ICC World Twenty20 - 1st semi final Pakistan v South Africa Pakistan won by 7 runs So again Greame Smith men were Kicked out of the Tournment……….!!!!

Conclusion: That meant the South Africans will have to live with the ‘chokers’ tag, having raced to the semifinals but never been able to get past it at world events.

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