+x+x+x+x+x+x+xHello has everyone gone walkabout? Not getting too carried away by the Saffers reply. They did show good resolve. The bottom line is there are no demons in this deck as proven by a rather ineffectual display by Ashwin and Jadeja on day three. But expect this road to start crumbling and offer variable bounce and turn on the last day and a half.. and the Saffers will have to bat last. India had little trouble setting the Saffers around 400 to win. By stumps they were already one down. Saffers need 384 on the final day. Two overs gone and two wickets also. The worst possible start for a side trying to save face by drawing the game. To be fair Bavuma got an old fashioned guzunda. 6-50. Over by lunch? Is the ball playing tricks off the cracks? Reckon Kohli sensed that when Bavuma fell to that low one. I said at the time it hit a crack. Saffers choked big time. I wouldn't have thought they are the biggest chokers, Baggers. That's their WC reputation. It all started with some rain in Sydney in 1992. There was rain in Auckland in 2015. There was one cup they got the DL score to the batsmen on the pitch wrong. They have been very very very unlucky. At WC's, but in 1999 they were the best team at the World Cup. Everyone knew it. And Aus beat them 1 run, then tied the semi and went through by virtue of beating them the game before. Aus won the first of 3 back to back cups, but everyone knew SA choked that one. Gibbs was infamously told by Steve Waugh "you just dropped the world cup". Waugh denies saying it. But SA choked big time in 1999. Think the Kluesner Donald run out. They had both games in the bag. And folded. But its rather fitting that 3 of the greatest ODI games ever are SA v Aus. And its 1 all with a tie. SA won the 430 game and broke Aus' world record score in the second innings, Gibbs got 90 odd. You 2 nations have produced some cracking matches. You may prefer beating England, but as a neutral, SA were the only bowling unit to push you outside Asia. Only SA (or NZ with a fit Bond) could regularly get remotely close to your wonder side. Tbh, SA v Aus was a match everyone looked forward too in the cricket world. Regardless of who they supported. Such was the respect of the Saffir bowlers, and the enitre Aus team.
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