India, March 5 -- South Africa came to Eden Gardens with more baggage than most. New Zealand had an equally chequered past but they didn't cling to that. The difference between the two sides on Wednesday was probably as simple as that or complicated beyond reason. What would rile South Africa, though, was how this wasn't even a close encounter-one that would have gone down in the books as another game where they choked.

"I thought it was a bloody walloping," said South Africa coach Shukri Conrad after New Zealand's nine-wicket semi-final win. "I think in order for you to choke, you must have had a sniff in the game. We didn't have a sniff. In South Africa, we say we got moered (smashed). Tonight, we got a proper snotklap (snot smacked ou...