{"id":156,"date":"2007-04-26T07:50:32","date_gmt":"2007-04-26T05:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/?p=156"},"modified":"2007-04-26T07:50:37","modified_gmt":"2007-04-26T05:50:37","slug":"the-less-said-the-better-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/the-less-said-the-better-but\/","title":{"rendered":"The less said the better, but &#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have purposely said as little as possible during the <a href=\"http:\/\/cricketworldcup.indya.com\/\">Cricket WorldCup<\/a> but now that we, South Africa, is finish I am going to say my bit. I know it is easy for us armchair cricketers to be critical but I believe that as a South African, and a proud one, I have the right to ask certain questions.<\/p>\n<p>First about yesterdays game:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why does injured players go play in an important game like that?&nbsp; Does being the captain automatically imply that one play even if you have a injured knee? Is Andre Nel that much better than Ntini to play with an almost broken thumb &#8211; I think not.<\/li>\n<li>What were Smith and Kallis thinking by storming down the wicket and throwing their wicket away so early in the game?&nbsp; Cricket is suppose to be a thinking man&#8217;s game &#8212; there was absolutely no thinking.<\/li>\n<li>Why did Smith not take the 2nd and 3rd powerplay or for that matter be more attacking in the field &#8212; they needed wickets. There was no way they would have won by defending the runs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Overall on the whole worldcup:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why did Petersen go with if he was not going to be used?<\/li>\n<li>Why was there no stability in the team? I got the feeling that no one was realy sure who should play when.<\/li>\n<li>Surely the team strategist, whomever he or she might have been, knew what type of wickets and condition was waiting on the team.&nbsp; Why was&#8217;nt a team picked that are suitable for that conditions. I am sure somebody like Paul Harris would have been much more valuable than say Kemp.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yes I am disappointed as a South African that we are out of the WorldCup but given the above I sort of expected it, so it was not a real surprise.&nbsp; The surprise would have been if we actually went on to win the cup.&nbsp; The fact that we got to the semis is already more than I expected with the team they picked.<\/p>\n<p>I am sure lot of you have a comment and opinion, whether you agree or not.&nbsp; At least we now have a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rugbyworldcup.com\/EN\/home\">Rugby WorldCup<\/a> to look forward to.&nbsp; Lets go into it&nbsp; optimistically and I believe if we pick the right squad then we can win that Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Technorati Tags: <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/cricket\" rel=\"tag\">cricket<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/worldcup\" rel=\"tag\">worldcup<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/south%20africa\" rel=\"tag\">south africa<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/rugby\" rel=\"tag\">rugby<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have purposely said as little as possible during the Cricket WorldCup but now that we, South Africa, is finish I am going to say my bit. I know it is easy for us armchair cricketers to be critical but <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/the-less-said-the-better-but\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  The less said the better, but &#8230;.<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"amazonpipp_noncename":"","amazon-product-isactive":"","amazon-product-single-asin":"","amazon-product-content-location":"","amazon-product-content-hook-override":"","amazon-product-excerpt-hook-override":"","amazon-product-singular-only":"","amazon-product-amazon-desc":"","amazon-product-show-gallery":"","amazon-product-show-features":"","amazon-product-newwindow":"","amazon-product-show-list-price":"","amazon-product-show-used-price":"","amazon-product-show-saved-amt":"","amazon-product-timestamp":"","amazon-product-new-title":"","amazon-product-use-cartURL":"","amazon_featured_post_meta_key":"","_amazon_featured_alt":"","amazon-product-template":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-south-africa","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}