7) SOUTH AFRICA (The Proteas):
From the
mid-nineties to the present, South Africans have been labeled as the typical
decorative team (usually the rival fans call them pejoratively as "the
International Cricket chokers), especially since they have not won a World Cup,
even in spite of to be favorite everlasting in all international events,New players in PSL 2018 as
well as for his general inability to win important matches in the great
occasions that have been presented to him.
South Africa
had played until the end of 2001, 359 Test Matches, of which it has won 126
(35.09%), lost 124 (34.54%) and tied 109 (30.36%). Likewise "Los
Proteas" have played 462 ODI matches, winning 288 (62.33%), losing 157
(33.98%) and tying 5 (1.08%), to which 12 matches without result (2, 60%).
Despite its
historical bad luck, South Africa was champion of the ICC Champions Trophy of
1998, tournament of which he was also a semifinalist in 2000, 2002 and 2006. In
the same way, he won the gold medal of the Commenwealth Games of 1998 and has
He was semifinalist of the World Cup in 1992, 1999 and 2007, as well as
semifinalist of the ICC World Twenty20 in 2009.
I did not
remember that maybe many in Venezuela and Latin America do not know the rules
or the conditions that apply for the three most important Cricket international
championships, but the same, and not to tire them more with reading, I will
leave for a next note.
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