Can SA win a Cricket World Cup?
South Africa go into their sixth Cricket World Cup, which started on Saturday, with just three members of the squad having previously played in cricket’s most important tournament. However, it’s not something that concerns captain Graeme Smith.
“We do have a lot of inexperience in these sort of tournaments, but I think there are always two sides to the coin,”
Smith said in an interview last week.
“I think we carry a lot of fresh minds into the tournament, a lot of guys who are really energetic, who are going to just leave it all out there.”
‘They don’t carry hurt’
“They don’t carry hurt from past tournaments and it’s going to be up to us [the three members with experience] to guide them and give them some experience in terms of how to go about things.”
Star all-rounder Jacques Kallis, who along with Robin Peterson completes the three players with previous World Cup experience, agreed with his captain.
>”It’s probably the least experienced side that we’ve taken to a World Cup, but having said that, it could also count in our favour. I also think we go into this World Cup as not one of the favourite teams to win it, which takes the pressure away a little bit, so I think there are a whole lot of things are counting in our favour,”
Kallis said.
“We can just go out and try and play some good attractive cricket, so who knows what can happen when one does that?
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