Tristan Lavalette notes that although the Proteas’ World Cup exit has not been as painful as some it has almost certainly been their most feeble

There was no point sugar coating it. “The results we’re dishing out at the moment are a little embarrassing,” Faf du Plessis aptly said after his team crashed out of the World Cup with a limp 49-run loss to Pakistan.
South Africa, such a powerhouse over the years, surprisingly were the second team – after a struggling Afghanistan mired in turmoil – to bow out of the tournament. This was not supposed to happ...