It's all about handling pressure
Anyone using statistics, form, or any other measurable factor to predict South Africa’s chances on the approaching cricket tour of Australia, is on a fool’s errand, says Mark Smit in Business Day .
ESPNcricinfo staff
25-Feb-2013
Anyone using statistics, form, or any other measurable factor to predict South Africa’s chances on the approaching cricket tour of Australia, is on a fool’s errand, says Mark Smit in Business Day.
What a tour of Australia by SA is about is raw courage and mental steel. Are the South Africans tough enough? Are they able to gain the psychological upper hand over the Aussies? Are they able to grit it out to the last ball of a Test without giving up? Will they be able to stand up to the enormous pressures of touring a country that is mad about cricket and withstand the onslaught of a media known widely as Australia’s 12th man, they are so biased
Mathew Varghese is sub-editor (stats) at Cricinfo