The chokers is the word that always hangs over South Africa's regularly shaky campaigns in major limited-overs tournaments. Ever since South Africa failed when needing just one run off the last four balls in the World Cup semifinals against Australia in 1999, it's been a litany of near-misses and gut-wrenching late failures. The South Africans have made the semifinals of the World Cup, Champions Trophy or World Twenty20 nine times since 1992 and have just one final and one title to show for it -- a long-forgotten triumph in the Champions Trophy in 1998.
