India, Feb. 9 -- It's a word that has been associated with South African cricket for years on end. A word not pleasant in any way imaginable, a word generations of South African cricket fans have come to hate. In some quarters, it is viewed as disrespectful, if not outright derogatory, but it's a word South Africa will have to live with until they produce a performance in a knockout game of a major tournament where they overturn a losing battle into a triumphant one.

'Chokers'. That's the word we are talking about. Loosely translated, it means snatching defeat when the waft of victory overwhelms the air, embracing defeat with the welcoming arms of success a few millimetres away.

As if to buttress the point came South Africa's spectacula...