As he surveyed the wreckage of the team’s failure to reach the semifinals of the ICC T20 World Cup, Proteas captain Temba Bavuma admitted the burden of expectation will continue to weigh heavily on the team until they win a major tournament.
Sunday's 13-run defeat to the Netherlands brought back talk about the Proteas being chokers as they once again failed to produce the desired result when it mattered the most at an ICC global tournament.
“It will always be there until we find ourselves in a situation where we get to a final and out on the right side of the result,” Bavuma said when asked about the weight of expectation on the team at major tournaments. “We have nothing to blame. Everything was in our hands as a team. We had the confidence, we had the belief and I would say we had the form behind us, but when it mattered we couldn’t do the business.”“I do think there are elements of learning that we can take from it, especially the younger guys like Tristan Stubbs and Marco Jansen, not to make the same mistakes the older guys have made. Unfortunately with the tag [of chokers], we are going to carry that monkey on our back.
“Obviously we didn’t do that, and that obviously didn’t back up the decision to bowl first. But that being said we still had a responsibility with the bat and we couldn’t get any type of momentum or flow to our innings. “We couldn’t adapt to the slow nature of the wicket. They made use to the dimensions of the field a lot better than we did as they forced us to hit a lot straighter to the longer boundary."
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