Rabada warns of more ODI misery
Proteas in fight to stop rampant India
Kagiso Rabada has news for South Africans: “Failure is going to happen.”
And there’s more: “It’s going to happen again.”
He probably didn’t mean all India need to do to win the third one-day international at Newlands today (1pm) is turn up for the toss.
But you could see where Rabada was coming from.
India have won the first two games in the series increasingly convincingly‚ following a six-wicket drubbing at Kingsmead on Thursday with a nine-wicket thrashing in Centurion on Sunday.
If anyone thought Virat Kohli’s team would be dispirited after losing the test series‚ think again.
In fact‚ India have been playing the demonstrably better cricket from the third test at the Wanderers last month‚ when they overcame extreme conditions to win by 63 runs.
Today’s game should be the last of the three AB de Villiers is due to miss because a finger problem.
Another dodgy digit took Faf du Plessis out of the mix after the Kingsmead match‚ and for the rest of India’s tour.
Quinton de Kock has been removed from the equation for up to four weeks with a wrist issue. But Rabada wasn’t ready to jump off a ledge.
“Sometimes when you do badly it seems like there’s a lot more going wrong than what really is happening‚” he said.
“We clearly haven’t come to the party; it’s not acceptable.”
Asked whether South Africa still had a chance to win the six-game series, Rabada said: “Anything can happen in sport. We are definitely not out of it.”