Yeah the late 90s SA were the best team in the world. They had even won the champions trophy. There loss in semi final changed the trajectory of world cricket, not only did South Africa fail to win the coveted trophy but that tie( even a loss would hurt less ) heralded the Australian cricketing dynasty

No they would have just reached the finals no one knows what would have been their fate in the final but in 2024 the cup was their two set batsmen less than run a ball needed and they bottled it

True, I think they would of won that world cup

2011 WC was also a huge choke. They were the best team of the tournament and beat India. Should've chased it comfortably against NZ but just started choking big time.

@@tusharsingh4543 2015 also was the best team. politics had to play role to play injured half fit philander instead of hot form Kyle abbot

@@hara3239 same world cup Gibbs scored 6 6s That's the south Africa story of the world cup Ace the group stages and fail in the knock outs Aus will manage to win group stage barely but will play knock outs like it's net practice Man I watched highlights of 2003 world cup ponting was literally playing stick cricket in world cup final He was toying with indian bowlers like they were club bowlers

@@shahezahmed9960 no, Gibbs scored 6 6s in the odi wc against ned. In the 2007 t20 wc, they really did choke big time, unbeaten for the group stages and super 8s, then as op mentioned lost to india by a big margin to get themselves knocked out

I remember that world cup very well

@@shahezahmed9960Yeah that’s true. Pointing was hitting Indian bowlers around the stadium as if he was playing against some school team.

Im Indian and it doesn't hurt

I'm Indian and I wasn't even born at that time, so I don't know 😅

Why would it hurt an indian, infact it helped as australia had the cricketing pedigree to beat pak in the final

@@sd-xk7qr You can feel / see the choke so bad, you feel bad just watching it.

Australia winning this match and the match against afg in 2023 world cup solidified their next win. A necessary challenge, instilled that, if we can win this then we can any game against any team.

Was raised to 10 at the end of the video

Exactly… South Africa might not have been in front but they messed up over 4-5 chances which any team would have taken.

I was just about to write that. 2007 WT20 was a huge shocker as SA won all their group stage matches, first two Super 8 matches against NZ and England, and finally lost to India by 37 runs getting eliminated behind India and NZ on account of a lower net run rate. A very underdiscussed choke by SA. PS: They were the hosts in that WT20.

Champions Trophy isn't a real trophy

Gibbs was a certified fixer 😂😂😂... everyone who follows cricket knows about him

​@johnny123-v6q Gibbs was retired hurt in middle of sa innings after that they started to choke with kallis as usual playing a slow af innings.

@@bhutochakrabarti4173 kallis scored 97(133) which was not bad chasing 261

Not 400 but anything beyond 330 to 370 was achievable. A flat track sure but nz werent chasing down 350 plus that day. Same happened in 2023 wc semi final against India however no rain affected us and Indian batters fully made use of the conditions to bat nz out of the game on a flat track. SA completing 50 overs that day would have ended nz.

DLS did give them 15 more runs to defend. Also, they only had Behardien left in the lineup, so you can't say with certainty that rain costed them the match.

U r 100% right...

Bavuma forgot he has spinner Maharaj Makram got head first ball but not before the carnage

yes , he is a doppleganger of the man they called Zulu .

😅

Or why didn't klusner hit over the fielders for a boundary why was he searching for single after hitting two back to back crushing boundaries

And JP Duminy continuing the pattern

They wouldn't have won either way given Australia had just beaten them 4-1 in the odi series played just few months ago. And, they didn't even play with their full strength XI. Also, India and Pakistan had both beaten SA comprehensively in the group stage and Australia defeated both of them in sf and qf respectively.

Here chocking specifically means losing from a winning position. So 2023 semi final wasn't chocking perse. There they lost fair and square. Most other instances they lost from a winning position... especially 2015, 1999 and 2024.

​@@jayeshchoudhari4776in 1996 they didn't lose from winning position either. Brian Lara crushed them. They never looked like winning. Listen to him again, he is talking about most heartbreaking losses not biggest choke

@@jayeshchoudhari4776 he’s not talking about choking!! But trying to quantify which losses has chocking as a factor and by how much!! So both 2023 & 2007 knockouts games are missing without a valid reason!! Might just be an oversight!!

Question Jarrod Should curse be subtracted or added? Explain please whst do you think, if it can be reconsidered

That spell of shane warne in which he took quick wickets of Gibbs, Kirsten and Cronje in the space of like 9 balls is always on their mind.

Match raat ko khatam huaa tha to raat ko kon cricket khelne jata hai

2023 sa wasn't a better team then india or aus , they were winning just by batting first on flat wickets ,they almost choked against pak chasing that'y they choose to bat first when there was so much rain before the match that made the pitch seemar frndly so it was a wrong decision by them they should have bowled first but they didn't bcz they were afraid of chasing any score

@@swapnilmishra3537 Sa might have been a better team than Aus. Aus recently have always found it difficult to win against SA. Just months before the WC, Aus lost the odi series to sa being on top at 2-0 to 2-3. 2017 odi series, Aus lost 0-5. 2019 cwc, they lost the group stage match which in turn dented their trophy hopes as they'd have played NZ in the semis. 2019-20 odi series, Aus lost 0-3. Even in the cwc23 group stage, SA toyed with Australian batters. So, SA were 13-2 H2H against Aus from the 2016-17 odi series till the semi final. Head, Starc and Cummins somehow bailed Australia out of the danger.

Ab missed a run out De kock missed a stumping

Farhan Behar...Duminy collide...

@@shahezahmed9960 true

U don't understand the meaning of chokers

They weren’t favourites for the 2007 one, it wasn’t really a heartbreak. 2023 should’ve been in there tho

6 wickets

Should have someone like Chris Morris or Jp duminy no 7 player

Problem is south africa loose in a manner where they loose the match from a winning position . In india case ,we actually know ,if our team is going to win or loose by seeing how they are playing on the given . In the 2023 ODI ,we saw the team lost all hope in finals against head but in the 2024 T20 world cup ,our team didn't lost hope even after klassen monstrous batting and match coming to 30 out of 30. This team risk it to win it.

They do already have one CT title but no world cups yet. And, might never win given cricket is now ded in SA

Their bad fielding cost them. Too many easy catches dropped easy run outs bottled. Their fielding cost them that day.

I feel they need to get someone like Ricky pointing who can change their mindset when they are under pressure how to perform cuz they need to get somebody who has the experience of playing a final and knockout medicine how to perform in that to your potential maybe they have the potential but they play timidly when it comes to knock out like you said fear of failure that should be taken out. I lost the innings of Ricky pointing the other day of 2003 finals Man what hitting he was playing Indian bowlers like club cricketers smashing them all around the ground. You literally need to boss the game from the beginning itself when crucial moments and never let the opposition get the better of you that's how you win the championships. In 2024 finals South Africa made blunders they send Maharaj ahead of rabada If rabada came and hit few boundaries do that is the pressure. They knew they had a shadow batting lineup Maharaj made 2 off 7. That's where they lost the game due to tactical error. You can have shallow batting lineup yet you can make the best utilization if you know the way to get around it. Imagine it was Australia who was in the situation of South Africa Would it be making sense to send Mitchell Starc when you need 26 off 24 or will you send the zampa or Hazelwood. Rabada is like your shaheen shah Afridi you give him the license to come and hit few sixes and boundaries just to ease the pressure so the match situation gets in your favor.

World cups are tragedies for South Africa. They need to come out of the state like they need to get someone like Ricky pointing who knows how to win in these crucial moments. Makram is the best captain they have who has the experience of winning under 19 world cup. Imagine if South Africa had lost against Australia in the finals instead of India. They would have literally broken down. Like New Zealand South Africa also has mental breakdown against Australia in the knockout matches. Losing against India might have somehow mellowed down a bit. If losing a final against Australia from that position would have literally crushed them.

@@shahezahmed9960 they had smith one of the best captain still could not do it.

Even 2002 CT Semifinal vs India, where they were coasting and Gibbs was smashing Indian bowling all over. Even 2000 CT Semifinal choke vs India where Ganguly scored 100. Come to think of it, South Africa has choked the maximum vs India in Semifinals and Finals in WC, CT and Tri nation tournaments.