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CWC 2023, SA vs SL Preview: South Africa Renew Bittersweet World Cup Adventure

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CWC 2023, SA vs SL Preview: South Africa Renew Bittersweet World Cup Adventure

By AFP News October 05, 2023 • 12:49 PM View: 981

South Africa take a winning momentum into their World Cup opener against Sri Lanka desperate to escape the tag of big-time chokers. Since South Africa returned from the apartheid-era wilderness, their relationship with the tournament has been bittersweet at best, cursed at worst.

In 1992, they were handed a rain-revised and mathematically impossible target of 22 runs off one ball to defeat England in the semi-final.

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