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WI vs SA, T20 series: a shot at redemption

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South Africa kicks off their (huge, extended, everlasting) tour of the Caribbean with two Twenty20 Internationals in Antigua on Wednesday and Thursday and it affords both ailing sides the opportunity to redeem themselves in the T20 format.West Indies and South Africa both got eliminated in the Super Eights phase of the World Twenty20 and both made it abundantly clear they don’t have the right formula in the shortest version of the game.The Windies relied entirely on Chris Gayle and Kieron Pollard; South Africa leaned heavily on AB de Villiers and Albie Morkel. One thing the World T20 taught us is that you can’t leave everything up to one or two players. It...   See the complete post here

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