Proteas play it cool ahead of the heat
Smiling and waving, players seem much in control
London — If you were at SA’s training session at New Malden outside London on Thursday you would not have guessed the clock was ticking ever more loudly towards another attempt to get the monkey off their backs. The players ambled off the team bus and through the gate of the sprawling suburban facility with the air of men trying to walk off Sunday lunch. They smiled and waved hellos to familiar faces as they went, gathered on the field, and seemed content to hang about to see what would happen. Hashim Amla paused to exchange warm greetings and a hearty chat with friends made during his time with Surrey in the 2013 and 2014 seasons. On an oval a hundred or so metres away an under-11 match was on the go — the kit white, the ball red, the players pinkening from an intense sun. Among the South Africans, the thought that the world was wondering out loud whether the 2017 Champions Trophy would end their trophy drought seemed not to carry any import. "We don’t want to put extra pressure on...
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