Confidence abounds for well-balanced Proteas

By Nick Said CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South Africa's reputation as cricketing 'chokers' has become a dressing room joke, they say, and there has been nothing spluttering about their build-up as they head to the World Cup in Australia and New Zealand in confident mood. It is true that the Proteas have found novel ways of exiting previous tournaments, from miss-reading the Duckworth/Lewis permutations to disastrous run-outs and spectacular batting collapses. "We've got the right players to win the World Cup. It's just now a matter of going there and finding a way to do so," a confident captain AB De Villiers, who smashed the fastest century in ODIs off 31 balls against West Indies in January, told reporters.
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