Sunday’s surprise win against Australia offered a chance to enjoy being South African again
After the drubbing the Proteas, the national men’s cricket team, received at the hands of the Australians last Friday, the collective mood of cricket lovers across the country was indeed very low. Coming as it did after losing a tight T20 series to the English, after a thrashing in the Tests, did not help matters. As one supporter said, after being challenged about how serious the situation was, “it is not life and death, it is more important than that”.
The collective anxiety of cricket lovers was palpable at the halfway stage, but Lungi Ngidi and Kagiso Rabada excelled as the Aussies fell 12 runs short. Most teams fiddle with the ball in one way or another, from using sweat and even spit , but to send a player onto the field with a piece of sandpaper really was beyond the pale and both men deserved a bit of “sledging” from the crowd. But apparently this has not happened. Had the roles been reversed, a SA team would have been savaged by a Sydney crowd, no doubt.
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