I really gave up watching cricket a long time ago, when I realised that I did not have 5 days free time to watch a test. When I was a university student, it was a wonderful sport to watch and certainly when I was at school it was my favourite sport to play. I am one of those who will never forget the run-out involving Lance Klusener and Alan Donald, for which I blame Alan Donald, but I certainly think that at that time, we had a far superior cricket team to what we have now, and quite frankly, the law of averages will eventually kick in and South Africa will win a tournament but if my memory serves me correctly it is now 14 major tournaments and we have not won a single world championship out of the 14 we have contested.

There are only 5 or 6 countries who can actually win tournaments, so it is somewhat surprising that we still have not got one, let alone two. In any event, one can always hope for the when it rains, it pours principle and hope that when they eventually do win one, the second will follow shortly! Their early exit out of the 20/20 World Cup in the West Indies was certainly embarrassing for them.