This delicious article sums up what it must be like to be a Jaapie with one test to go in the series.
Here Jacques Kallis wrestles with the fact that twice in the series South Africa have been one ball away from winning games but still find themselves one down with one to play.
This is most upsetting to South Africans. They were lead to believe that this England side was full of lily-livered deserting South Africans who weren't good enough to play for the motherland and a bunch of post Colonialist bully boys with little talent. They would bat for days and their world ranked no. 1 bowler would skittle us rotten.
You can feel the pain in this quote:
"We have discussed it because the feeling could be that we have dominated the series but somehow haven't managed to get a win"
You can imagine the poor fellas in the changing room:
Smuth: **&&*&^*&^%&*%$%&*^*(^*&(*^*&^!!!!??!?!!
Dressing Room: .........
Translating this interview from interviewese into plain speak you get:
"I can't f*cking believe it. I've scored a mountain of sodding runs. I've even had to turn my arm over and snaffle a bunch of catches. But somehow these English bastards have scraped a couple of draws with some really, really ugly cricket. And it hasn't been their bowling. We let ourselves down in Durban. Actually - I failed once in that game and the others let me down. The boys are f*cking furious. Mickey could lose his job. No one's talking to Smithy because we all blame him for declaring too late. Twice."
Which is all good. But the interview really gets out of hand when Jacques starts handing out the insults. Yes Colly is ginge. But he's our ginge.
"He might not be the prettiest batsman but you'd rather take a guy who gets ugly runs and gets the job done than someone who looks good but doesn't perform regularly"
Wickman thinks this is a sly dig at Ashwell Prince and JP Duminy who haven't scored a run between them when the pressure's been on...
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