T20 World Cup: Proteas bowling unit ‘comes of age’ in dominant Super 8 win over India

Of the two major disciplines it would be fair to suggest that the Proteas’ bowling has been the Achilles heel in their quest to become a real juggernaut - to steal a line from Ravi Shastri — T20 outfit. Apart from beanpole left-arm seamer Marco Jansen, there has always been a sameness to the attack consisting primarily of right-arm seamers. Even the spinners are both left-arm orthodox without any of the mystery most of the opposition teams possess in their line-ups. But on Sunday evening in Ahmedabad’s T20 World Cup Super 8 cauldron, the Proteas bowling unit came of age. Their performance against India’s much-vaunted batters was of the highest pedigree. The 76-run victory over the defending...