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Top of the table and with healthiest net run rate after two rounds by each of the World Cup’s 10 teams … so much for South Africa cunningly tiptoeing about their business in India as an under-touted entity.
“A quite superb team performance … (but) it means they are no longer under the radar,” observed neutral television commentator and former England captain Nasser Hussain of Temba Bavuma’s buoyant troops after their latest lopsided win at the tournament at Lucknow on Thursday.
Victorious by 102 runs in their opener against Sri Lanka, the Proteas followed it up with an even more comprehensive 134-run roasting of an oddly out-of-sorts Australia, the five-time champions.
