CHENNAI: Be it a dropped catch and a bizarre run-out in the 1999 World Cup or goofing up a Duckworth Lewis target in 2003, great South African teams have always manufactured methods to throw away winning positions. Their last such choke was in 2015, when again a great South African team led by AB de Villiers allowed New Zealand's Grant Elliot to rise from anonymity in the semifinal and become a World Cup hero.
This time around, while the Proteas have steamrolled teams batting first, their nerve-wracking one-wicket win against Pakistan on Friday might give the impression that they have outgrown the choker's tag. But have they really?
