Mr Mxyzptlk
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But Klusener enjoys facing pace bowling and Vaas hadn't exactly ripped through the SA batsmen. In fact, when you think about it, the only top team that (ie decent Test nation) that Vaas did well against was WI and WI played poor shots against him and there was one bad decision. I'm not discrediting him as a bowler though. In fact, I think that he could get to Wasim quality in the next couple of years.Legglancer said:Well I disagree with the notion that South Africa would have certainly won had the game gone the full distance. I have watched too much cricket to make comments like that. I think Atapatu and De Silva demoralised the SA bowling and took the game awey from SA. 40 runs from 30 balls is a gettable target with a Klusner and Boucher at the crease... but Dont forget that Vass had 3 overs left and Murali had also 1 over .... these two guys are 2 of the top wicket takers in the SL team and this world cup theirfore the match could have gone either way.
Regarding Murali, Boucher had just smashed him for an effortless six.