Who are bigger chokers - The All Blacks or The Proteas?

Posted by Ron | Posted in All Blacks, South Africa | Posted on 29-09-2009

Everyone in the rugby world says that the All Blacks are the biggest chokers in the game when it comes to World Cup Rugby time. It is a fact that the All Blacks have failed to win the World Cup every since they won the first one. They somehow always seem to disappoint when it comes to the World Cup. They play so well in non World Cup years and they are usually always the favourites going into a Wolrd Cup to win it.

I believe that if the All Blacks can not win the World Cup in 2011 on the own home patch, they may not win it again in a very long time.

Now let us look at the other great chokers in sport today: The South Africa cricket team otherwise known as The Proteas. Now just like the All Blacks, the Proteas can not seem to win these major cricket tournaments be it the recent ICC Champions Trophy that they got dumped out from, or a T20 World Cup or the main Cricket World Cup. What is it about the Proteas and these tournaments. Right now the Proteas are ranked Number 1 in both forms of the game thus many expected them to win the ICC Champions Trophy and even more so that it was being played on their own home turf.

What is it about the All Blacks and the Proteas when it comes to the big stage?

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Comments (4)

Mozie said on 29/Sep/2009@1:26 pm

lol…. i am not even gonna read this article. the title is descriptive enough. but yes there are similarities even though I don’t think these proteas are the best team in the world.

BP said on 29/Sep/2009@1:53 pm

when i watched the proteas on sunday against england i coud only think that they are definitely the All Blacks of cricket. not always the best ODI or T20 or Test team, but definitely always up there and shuold be challenging for at least semi spots. going into a lot of tournaments recently the proteas have been favourites only to be knocked out sometimes before the last 8 stage. they have some good players but just no BMT. morkel and AB devilliers didnt deliver on the big stage and these are 2 of the most lethal batsmen in current cricket. Dale Steyn (funny that this surname is ebcoming household in 2 different sports) didnt do the damage we’ve become accustomed to. poor showing by the proteas when they shuoldve been dominating.

The Ultimate All Black said on 29/Sep/2009@10:46 pm

the proteas are. They have never won anything.

At least the Abs have one RWC

zinzan said on 25/Nov/2009@3:54 pm

Proteas hands down. One of the best sports memories for me ever was when Zim thrashed them in the 1999 world cup!!

Then the following world cup in 2003 ( held in SA ) they could nt even make the play offs!

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