ICC Champions Trophy 2013

[Wall]

Chokers :beer:

 

[CHURCHILL]

Well played to India, deserved winners.

Now now fella's, I know you all are excited about England losing the final, but take a deep breath and relax for a moment, think really hard before throwing the CHOKERS tag around.

 

[randomgamer]

Michael Vaughan ✔ @MichaelVaughan
England will have to except that they did Choke..This will hurt for a Long long time... Dhoni was Outstanding as skipper ... My MOM....

 

[Haldex]

You can't choke in a final, it's the best team on the day, that been said we haven't seen many finals lol.
Well done India, deserved winners!
Average age only 24!

 

[AfricanTech]

Michael Vaughan ✔ @MichaelVaughan
England will have to except that they did Choke..This will hurt for a Long long time... Dhoni was Outstanding as skipper ... My MOM....

and so it starts....

when your own give you that label, that's when it starts that worm in the subconscious

 

[Picard]

Chinua Achebe - Things fall apart

 

[AfricanTech]

You can't choke in a final, it's the best team on the day, that been said we haven't seen many finals lol.
Well done India, deserved winners!
Average age only 24!

That's bulldust for this game - this was a choke fair and square - 20 runs, plenty batsmen, plenty overs - and kaboom (or should I say kerfuffle (meaning a soft implosion))

England simply choked - what was it the one commentator said "rabbits in the headlights"

On a more serious note, this label choker seriously fecks with people's minds - the fact that people like Vaughan has voiced it means that England are going to have to climb a hurdle in every final and every tournament (like us)

 

[MickeyD]

That was a classic choke... snatching defeat from the jaws of victory!

 

[Rosaudio]

England have now lost 5 finals

How many has SA won?

 

[lilggg]

If i was a player i would hate having to talk to hussein, he asks some stupid and awkward questions.

 

[NeonNinja]

CHOKERS!

 

[Arthur]

Michael Vaughan ✔ @MichaelVaughan
England will have to except

Except? What?

 

[killadoob]

1 final ros, more than england in the last 4 decades and two of those we couldn't play.

Better than england, at least we are not the worst chokers

 

[Haldex]

That's bulldust for this game - this was a choke fair and square - 20 runs, plenty batsmen, plenty overs - and kaboom (or should I say kerfuffle (meaning a soft implosion))

England simply choked - what was it the one commentator said "rabbits in the headlights"

On a more serious note, this label choker seriously fecks with people's minds - the fact that people like Vaughan has voiced it means that England are going to have to climb a hurdle in every final and every tournament (like us)

Oh shut up!
They came close to winning, they lost to the better team, they completely destroyed and outplayed us in the semi, they deserved their spot in the final.

 

[Arthur]

Haldex is right.

 

[AfricanTech]

How many has SA won?

Y'see, this is the problem with the whole choking thing - winning becomes irrelevant - everyone starts looking at losses only.

We've reached the point where we just shrug - short form of the game is a write off for me - if we do happen to win a short form tournament in my lifetime, I'll probably write it off to luck.

England however are starting to look like the no-hoper team of 15 years ago - Australia's punch bag in those days - losing the way they did today is going to mess with the their minds big time - and there are enough youngsters in the team for it to become a transmitted disease like our affliction.

 

[MickeyD]

In sports, a "choke" is the failure of an athlete or an athletic team to win a game or tournament when the player or team had been strongly favoured to win or had squandered a large lead in the late stages of the event.

Ergo...

England CHOKED.

 

[AfricanTech]

Oh shut up!
They came close to winning, they lost to the better team, they completely destroyed and outplayed us in the semi, they deserved their spot in the final.

Now, now , no need to be rude - a bit too much of the sauce eh!

Who said they didn't destroy and outplay us in the semi? or that they did not deserve their place in the final? Not me!

They choked - fair and square - what goes around, comes around.

 

[Rosaudio]

1 final ros, more than england in the last 4 decades and two of those we couldn't play.

Better than england, at least we are not the worst chokers

Meh, I don't even care.. I was supporting SA against England at the Oval last Wednesday.. I just find the reaction here incredibly ironic

 

[killadoob]

Meh, I don't even care.. I was supporting SA against England at the Oval last Wednesday.. I just find the reaction here incredibly ironic

I didn't bother watching, there was never a doubt we would lose. We do it every tournament so i am over watching us lose in tournaments. England though never had this game in the bag. That sharma over was either going to put england in the pound seat or india. after both went, game over too much spin, new batsmen. They came close though, closer than we normally come.

I don't think england choked, dhoni is an amazing captain who does things that at the times i don't understand like bowling sharma instead of reina, turned out to be a beast of an over and a game changer.