WC 8th Match: India v South Africa - Southampton 5/6/19 (Ind won by 6 wickets)

[Sphagnum]

This will kill Cricket in South Africa for sure this World Cup performance

They need to put a broom through the joint. Their shitty spinner who carries on like a pork chop when he gets a wicket is 40 ffs

 

[blaza88z]

I havent seen a team so dependant on an opening partnership in a good while, if De Kock/Amla don't feature in the scoring it's basically curtains

 

[Iafeta]

The best thing about Choke Efreka is seeing that turd Imran Tahir run to the crowd like a spud to celebrate a wicket, and then be beaten. He’s such a gronk, massively punchable

 

[Meth]

Haven't seen this discussed elsewhere, but South Africa's woes have been compounded by revelations that AB De Villiers offered to come back for the World Cup, but SA management turned him down. http://www.espncricinfo.com/story/_...t-world-cup-recall-sa-team-management-said-no

I think I side with SA management on this one. It doesn't really matter how good you are, you're not bigger than the team...except in this instance perhaps, when SA would probably be better to just field AB alone, so I don't know.

 

[Meth]

 

[AlwaysGreen]

Haven't seen this discussed elsewhere, but South Africa's woes have been compounded by revelations that AB De Villiers offered to come back for the World Cup, but SA management turned him down. http://www.espncricinfo.com/story/_...t-world-cup-recall-sa-team-management-said-no

I think I side with SA management on this one. It doesn't really matter how good you are, you're not bigger than the team...except in this instance perhaps, when SA would probably be better to just field AB alone, so I don't know.

Agree as well, great player but you can't just expect to rock up and play whenever you want to. ABDV seems to want everything on his terms.

 

[Bazal]

I feel like AB is suffering from his own silence in many ways tbh... And that's based on rumour so I could be well off the mark

 

[JJ]

Agree as well, great player but you can't just expect to rock up and play whenever you want to. ABDV seems to want everything on his terms.

Hmmm. Normally agree, but for someone as good as him I reckon you work out a way

 

[AlwaysGreen]

Hmmm. Normally agree, but for someone as good as him I reckon you work out a way

Nope.
Classic case of having your cake and eating it too.

He wants to earn big bucks in the 20 20 leagues and then front up and play the world cup.