with what is currently happening to the South African innings may cause some of us to have a rethink of our criticism of him. If we had lost a few early wickets in a big game would we have had the temperament in a big game to maximise our run rate without losing a flood of wickets.

I would still fault him for trying too hard to slog the ball rather than play his natural game....but again i fault the sudden change of opening partner for that. Still, the wicketless powerplay was a good platform to build from

Despite Hope slow start, the Hetmyer decision pretty much seemed to have decided things

@Logic

it's a reasonable point, but bottom line is our bowling an even if we had scored 230+ i still would not have been confident we would have been able to defend it ...of all the teams in the semis our bowling attack is by far the worse...which is in comparison to our batting which i think is the strongest!!

Hope and a few other batsmen have that minds set of starting slowly and then explode, the issue with that approach is, when he fails it puts enormous pressure on the team. Power play is not a period to rotate strike.

Actually he probably missed 10 runs at the most> But you would trade for a a lack of collapse. Also you got a surprising contribution from Chase. So it all evened out. It was overblown. like it is easy to score 220 against India on any ground.