De Villiers owns up to South African choke
Once before the tournament began, and now at South Africa’s exit, AB de Villiers has confronted the choker’s tag, and worn it self-critically. “We have choked in the past,” was his unprovoked confession in the days leading up to the tournament, and at their farewell, he again uttered the c-word previous South Africa captains would have avoided even if giving a lecture on the Heimlich maneuvre’s effect on fuel injection.
It was almost pre-emptive flagellation. Perhaps de Villiers believed the press would beat the team with that stick anyway, and chose to reappropriate the label – or at…
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