Try not to choke
After South Africa's innumerable disappointments in ICC tournaments, Neil Manthorp pleads with the side, in Mail & Guardian Online , to try and avoid a choke this time around in the West Indies.
Nitin Sundar
25-Feb-2013
After South Africa's innumerable disappointments in ICC tournaments, Neil Manthorp pleads with the side, in Mail & Guardian Online, to try and avoid a choke this time around in the West Indies.
Unlike England, South Africa have at least won one ICC tournament out of the past 20. Remember the inaugural Champions Trophy in Bangladesh in 1998? No, not many do. There were limited expectations back then and, realistically, there should be this time, too.
Pakistan are defending champions, India and Sri Lanka are red hot, the West Indies are hosts and New Zealand are perennial semifinalists at these things. Let's just hope that Smith's boys are not catastrophically embarrassed by Afghanistan in their second group match and take it from there. (No, seriously. Afghanistan qualified. Really.) Get past them and anything could happen.
Nitin Sundar is a sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo