Marco Jansen celebrates with his South African team-mates during the T20 World Cup match against Afghanistan at Brian Lara Cricket Academy in Tarouba, Trinidad and Tobago. (Robert Cianflone/Getty Images)
Winning a string of tense ones and now dishing out a true pounding, SA stand one further triumph shy of maiden World Cup glory, writes Rob Houwing.
Given their heartlessly sniggered-at history, it will be nothing short of sublime and surreal if Aiden Markram’s 2024 Proteas bring home a World Cup trophy in the next few days.
But pause for a second.
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