SA’s WT20 crash no joke, but also no choke

Sunday Times

TELFORD VICE, Johannesburg

Unlike SA’s other failures in tournaments, their inability to advance past the semi-finals at the World T20 in Bangladesh was a problem of tactics rather than temperament.

India were the better team in Dhaka on Friday and won by six wickets with five balls to spare. Damn straight – no implosions or explosions were involved, and there is no need for the tortured introspection that has accompanied SA’s previous stumbles. They tried, and tried hard. They lost...