Playing for pride

By Gina
@Gina145 (3949)
Johannesburg, South Africa
March 28, 2016 8:46am CST
South Africa are taking on Sri Lanka in their last game of the World T20 cricket tournament. Having already been eliminated from the tournament, all they have left to play for is pride. Captain Faf du Plessis won the toss and chose to bowl first. Lately the team has performed better chasing, so hopefully they'll end their tournament with a win.
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Janet Hunt
@jahunt (1380)
• United States
28 Mar 16
Good luck to your team. I hope they win!
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Gina
@Gina145 (3949)
• Johannesburg, South Africa
29 Mar 16
Thanks @jahunt . They did.
Avinash
@avi256 (8489)
• Pune, India
28 Mar 16
Its really disappointing indeed that such a great T20 team of South Africa is out of semis. However, absence of Duminy and AB devilliars missing touch also did not do any favor to them. I think SA will come hard today on Lankans and will try to go home with this win under their belt.
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Gina
@Gina145 (3949)
• Johannesburg, South Africa
28 Mar 16
@avi256 You were right. They played really well today. I agree that Duminy's injury was a big blow to the team, but Farhaan Behardien did well today in his place. I think the selectors made a mistake in picking Rilee Rossouw for the game against West Indies because he's been out of form for a while.
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Avinash
@avi256 (8489)
• Pune, India
29 Mar 16
@Gina145 I think against windies they just couldn't read the pitch. There were so many soft dismissals. Moreover David Miller who was their firepower just failed.
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Gina
@Gina145 (3949)
• Johannesburg, South Africa
29 Mar 16
@avi256 You may be right. Conditions there were so different to their two previous matches that they probably couldn't adapt.
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rakski
@rakski (112925)
• Philippines
2 Apr 16
Good luck!!! Hope you win!!!
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Gina
@Gina145 (3949)
• Johannesburg, South Africa
2 Apr 16
Thanks @rakski . We won that game, but we really should have done better in the games before that. It was a really disappointing tournament as a whole.
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rakski
@rakski (112925)
• Philippines
2 Apr 16
@Gina145 of course, it would have been better if you team were able to play better in most of the game.
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Sergio Louro
@smvl1976 (24)
• Amadora, Portugal
2 Apr 16
Who is the best team?
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Gina
@Gina145 (3949)
• Johannesburg, South Africa
3 Apr 16
@smvl1976 The team that won the tournament was the West Indies, so I guess that makes them the best team in this format. Cricket has three different formats though and different countries excel in different formats.
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Sergio Louro
@smvl1976 (24)
• Amadora, Portugal
4 Apr 16
@Gina145 Thank you
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