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NEIL MANTHORP: Proteas’ stubborn, inflexible play smacked of a team that expected to win
Still, there is a bewildered sympathy among the other nations for the usually routinely competitive South Africans
04 June 2019 - 05:06
It wasn’t the first time SA had been guilty of sticking to an inflexible formula, but the World Cup defeat by Bangladesh was virtually a celebration of stubbornness.
“It’s Bangladesh, they can’t play the short ball, we’ll bounce them out. Yes we bloody well will!” ..
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