LEFT ARM OVER
NEIL MANTHORP: Tragicomic Miller runout symbolic of clueless Proteas
The flight crews on commercial aircraft are trained to share responsibilities in the best of times so they do so automatically in the worst of times when decision-making can become clouded by a lack of oxygen, surges of adrenalin and the prospect of disaster. Although the captain is in charge, the crew cover for each other and double-check everything so that an obsession with a certain aspect of the critical data cannot occur to the exclusion of everything else. In a strictly operational sense, airline crews have their egos systematically trained out of them when on duty. They exist purely to transport the aircraft and its passengers from point A to B. On the surface, SA’s national cricket team has tried every psychological approach to overcome the hoodoo and red mist that descends at the critical moment during global tournaments, including denial.First came the rah-rah "most important tournament of our lives" followed by a more cautious, "it’s not a matter of life and death". Then ...
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