KOLKATA: South Africa are back where it all began for them. It was at the Eden Gardens on November 10, 1991 that South Africa returned to international cricket after a hiatus of over two decades due to apartheid. On Thursday at the same venue, they stand a chance to rewrite history again, this time by ending the side's World Cup semifinals jinx when they face Australia in the second semifinal.
South Africa had been there (knockouts) in 1992, 1996, 2007 and 2015, but had failed to go beyond that. Will it be different this time? SA skipper Temba Bavuma is cautiously optimistic about that. "A lot of people believe that this could be the year that we see ourselves within the final. As a team, individually we'd like nothing better than that. But we also respect the game of cricket," he said on Wednesday.
