Today, my blog is about all the cures that some cricket teams carry with them all cricket lovers and those who watch cricket will know what I am talking about. We all know how South Africa is known as “chokers”.
They have always been one of the best sides in cricket history. Every time them come into the cricket ground, they show how superior they are to the other cricket teams. Every time they enter in a World Cup or any other tournaments, they start with a bang. All are so strong against the oppositions that the matches become one-sided. Everyone starts predicting that it is going to be South Africa who is going to win the tournament. But wait a minute, now comes the curse part of this South African team. As soon as they enter into knock out rounds, the opposition knows that they are going to win it.
No matter how inferior that team is in from of the mighty South Africans, but they know that there is some kind of curse on this South African team that doesn’t let them wins when they get into knock out stages.
It happened first time in 1992 Cricket World Cup quarter final. That match was tied and Australia was given victory through run rate basis. In the 1996 Cricket World Cup quarter final, they lost to Sri Lanka. Yet again, they had a tie and Sri Lanka was qualified on run rat basis. Later the ICC realized that it was South African who should have gone to the semi final and not Sri Lanka because their run rat was better and it was a big mistake in calculations. Then they went to 1999 Cricket World Cup with a hope to bring the cup home this time. But by that time, they didn’t know that they were going to make a hat rick to get into quarterfinals and get kicked out form there for the third time. This time they were against Australians. This time they tried everything to win this time and qualify for semifinals. They needed 1 run to win from 4 balls and they had the worst run out of all time and Australians qualified for the semis and yet again South Africans were kicked out. Now they had realized that something was wrong with their team because going to quarterfinal with no sweat in three World Cups in a row and losing those quarterfinals could not be a coincidence. Then they came to 2003 World Cup, and nothing was going to be different this time either. This time was out even before qualifying for they quarterfinals. It wasn’t like they were a weak team in 2003, they were among the most favorite teams to win that 2003 World Cup, but they were not even able to make it to quarterfinals. Then they went 2007 and 2011 World Cups, and sadly, the results were same. They went there as one of the best teams and they were kicked out from quarterfinals. This shows that there is something with this team that stops them from winning in knockout stages.
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