QDK has now apologised
De Kock sorry for not taking a knee
South Africa's Quinton de Kock apologises after refusing to take a knee against West Indies and says he is "not a racist".
www.bbc.co.uk
All very strange, if I'm honest and extremely badly handled by all parties. Its not like taking the knee suddenly sprung out out of thin air in Cricket and QDK was not participating like other team members who stood before they were given the directive to kneel. So for some reason he chose not to engage with a gesture he apparently agrees with, which is the bit that baffles.snip
...this....did not age wellTime to end Kiwi world cup hopes again
agreed, even at our strongest we've had our arse kicked by aus, they just always step up when playing usUrgh, australia. We definitely feel the pressure when playing australia. Its a very hard thing to watch when we lose against Australia.
Outstanding effort by us to make the ODI, Test Cricket & 20/20 finals - surely that must make us the best all-round cricket team in the world at the moment... very disappointing that Conway won't play in the final because of an injury, bit of keystone Cop stuff how it happened though, when he got stumped by the keeper he was that peeved off he smashed his hand into the bat & broke his fingerFinalists of the world tournament in all three formats isn't too bad an achievement. Just four guys in common across all three formats too.
It helps that we don't feel the same level of pressure as some of the other countries for sure. The opposite of the all blacks in that respect, who have typically struggled with the pressure of world cups. And because we keep doing well (for a small country) in tournaments and have reasonable consistency in selections we have a fair amount of confidence.
Hadn't heard about Conway, thats massive. Seifert in I guess. I wonder if we should swap out Milne for de grandhomme too.Outstanding effort by us to make the ODI, Test Cricket & 20/20 finals - surely that must make us the best all-round cricket team in the world at the moment... very disappointing that Conway won't play in the final because of an injury, bit of keystone Cop stuff how it happened though, when he got stumped by the keeper he was that peeved off he smashed his hand into the bat & broke his finger
I enjoy test cricket the most, you have battles within battles between bowlers & batsmen etc... white ball cricket is more of a smash bash game.
To be fair one of the main reasons the ABs struggled to win a RWC for ages was because we tried to play too much expansive running rugby... wasn't util we started to play smarter rugby in 2011 that we finally won it again.
True, Conway will be really missed, his composure is excellent in pressure situations, also he consistently works the ball into gaps, the bloke is a similar type of batsmen to Williamson.Hadn't heard about Conway, thats massive. Seifert in I guess. I wonder if we should swap out Milne for de grandhomme too.
I wasn't referring to pressure as the reason we lost rugby world cups, just the reason we performed a lot worse than we could. Actually 2011 was probably the one where we felt the most pressure. Players had tunnel vision in that final due to the pressure and we nearly lost. Actually most of the world thinks we were lucky with ref decisions and should have lost. If we did lose people would recognise the choke, because we won people say we were resilient. Fact is we choked and won despite it. Even 2015, we could easily have lost the semi because we weren't great under pressure.