EDITORIAL: Proteas help us bat away the doom and gloom
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”.
One all-time favourite T-shirt at a cricket match had as its inscription “I support any team that is playing against Australia”. This is true — matches between SA and the Aussies have a special type of tension. Normally they are very competitive indeed. While it is not the Holy Grail of Test cricket, the recent spate of T20 internationals have been vastly entertaining and, thankfully, have seen spectators returning to the stadiums to watch the games...
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