SA Rocks

It’s been a relatively good weekend for South African sports.

Bafana Bafana played great football on Saturday but sadly lost to Spain 2-0. In spite of the final score I felt that the lads played one helluva game and improved their football tenfold from their first performance in the Confederations Cup.

Now, lets just hope that Bafana can hold a MASSIVE upset and defeat Brazil in the semi-final. Surprisingly Egypt did not make it through to the semi’s. I think after their historic victory over World Champions Italy, they deserved to pip the USA and go through. Alas it was not to be.

And the Bokke pulled off a lucky victory against the British and Irish Lions on Saturday. I say lucky because we technically received a thumping in the second half of the match. A great performance in the first half put us up by a fair amount. The Beast had a ripper of a game and destroyed the scrums for the Lions. When he was replaced. Things went bad.

I am impressed with Mr Peter de Villiers and his response. He took blame for making substitutions too early in the game. This most definitely put us in a tricky slot. We handled it well and luckily came away with a win.

Finally, yes in case you had forgotten, we still lost the T20 semi-final. Pakistan however, ended up winning the tournament. Congratulations to them!

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This is not going to be a long post at all. I’ve been busy and unfortunately missed the boat on this one.

Shaun Pollock waves goodbye at the Wanderers, 5th ODI, Johannesburg, February 3, 2008 – source

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But nonetheless Shaun Pollock deserves a special mention on SA Rocks. The guy is incredible and managed to get through his career without a Hansie-like incident. This in itself should be applauded. Pollock has never found himself in a questionable position in the international cricket sphere.

His stats speak for themselves and I am sure he will be sadly missed by his country and teammates.

In his final test on his homeground he managed to hit the winning boundary. What a way to go. Pollock captained the team, was at the helm of many victories and stood tall throughout the rough times in SA cricket. The man is a hero to many young South Africans and an ambassador for the game of cricket world wide.

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