YOU CAN'T HAVE IT ALL

I have to say days are good for South African sport. The proteas are playing well this was the recent review by Supersport : New Zealand cricket coach Mike Hesson knows it will be challenging to face South Africa again, but he says they were not quite prepared for the rude awakening they received at the start of the first test match.

The Proteas crushed the tourists by an innings and 27 runs in the first test in Cape Town last week, after bowling out the Black Caps for 45 runs in the first innings.

“At the end of the first day, if we didn't already know we were in for an extremely tough game, we certainly realised it pretty quickly,” Hesson said at the weekend.

“We all knew it would be very hard coming into the test, but the reality hit home after the first morning.”

After the Black Caps were dismissed in 19.2 overs, spending exactly 100 minutes at the crease, Hesson said they had picked themselves up and decided to deal with the disaster another time, opting to move on with the battle rather than falling to pieces.

“We knew we had to be pretty strong mentally and we showed that at the end of the game,” he said.

“The match was dictated by the first couple of hours and from that point on we were largely competitive, but that horror session had already set up the game.” I think they should have took a few more days to deal with the shock. Besides the Proteas doing well, yesterday Bafana Bafana played Norway even though it was a 1-0 loss the statistics proved to be on their favour and what is more important is that the fans of South Africa are supporting them all the way. Even though that is all good and well problems have arisen in Limpopo due to the repetition of what seemed to thee most horrific thing of the textbooks not being delivered. After the worst strike South Africa has experienced in years (Marikana Strike) we might  be experiencing the same with farm workers demanding wage increases. You would think they were looking at this situation when they said you can't have it all.