Cricket: SA poud chokers

Smith: “We meet all our goals”

South African cricket captain, Graeme Smith, says that he is proud of his team and the manner in which they choked again during the ICC Champions Trophy being held in South Africa.

“You have to say that we are up there with the world’s best chokers, if not the best,” a beaming Smith said of his team’s early exit at the hands of a very ordinary English team.

“We can certainly be mentioned in the same breath as The All Blacks, St George, Greg Norman, Jana Novotna and Jean Van de Velde. We have kept -up the proteas proud tradition of choking when it counts, and in fact bettered it by losing to England.”

South Africa very nearly didn’t choke in the 1999 Cricket World when they drew with eventual champions Australia in the semi Final. Chief choker on the day, veteran speedster Alan Donald, would later say

“I thought about running but decided to choke instead.”