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South Africa weeps

REUTERS/AFP, Johannesburg
South Africa woke up to one dominant sporting image on Tuesday the incredulous, crushed face of cricket World Cup skipper Shaun Pollock.
Pollock appeared on the front of all of the country's newspapers after his team's cruel first-round exit from the tournament after their rain-affected Pool A match against Sri Lanka ended in a tie.
The Star displayed three pictures of Pollock under the banner headline "Heartbreaking". In the first, he stared out blankly at the Durban rain which was to kill off both the day-night game and his side's hopes.
The next photograph had him with his head in his hands and the third looking away to the side, as if for help.
"Shock. Horror. Despair," said the three captions.
The Star's main sports headline blamed cricket's "Weather gods".
"It seemed as if vice-captain Mark Boucher, who was batting with Lance Klusener, was given the wrong message when light drizzle started falling," it said.
The disappointment echoed not only the 1999 tournament, when the team was knocked out of the semifinals after a tied match against Australia, but also 1992, when rain had also left them cruelly short during a run chase, again in the semifinals, against England.
"Last night the nightmares of 1992 and also the 1999 World Cup returned to haunt them and it will remain with them for many years to come," said The Star.
'Polly devastated by another tied exit,' proclaimed the tabloid Citizen, its inside pages telling of how the 'World Cup love-hate relationship continues'.
Had South Africa scored one more run in Durban they would have won under the DuckworthLewis system for deciding rain-affected matches.
South Africa had hoped to become the first host nation to lift the trophy. Had they won on Monday, they would not only have qualified but also taken 10 points with them, leaving them in good position to reach the semifinals.
Their failure to reach the second round represented their worst result in the tournament.
Pollock's picture even made it to the front of the Business Day newspaper, even if he couldn't quite push an article on telecom share prices out of prime spot.
"Dumped by DuckworthLewis", the back page headline said, referring to the complex scoring system used to revise victory targets in rain-affected matches.
South African television, meanwhile, replaying cricket highlights of Monday's matches on Tuesday morning, ran a string of email messages from fans at the bottom of the screen.
All appeared supportive of the team, but less so of the Duckworth-Lewis scoring equation.
Not that the sports-mad South African public, some of whom flooded SAFM radio with complaints, were inclined to be so understanding.
"We've never had firepower from beginning. We need to start planning for the next World Cup," said one caller.
"We need to start looking for a pool of players, particularly good spinners and people who can bowl medium pace," said Sarif from Cape Town. Another said the team
had only themselves to blame.
"As a patriotic South African I'm disappointed but let's now be man enough and be realistic to say the team did not play well.
"You could not put our team under such pressure to go into the last match where it's win at all costs. We haven't played well."
But his words failed to pacify one caller from Port Elizabeth who slammed chairman of selectors Omar Henry and called for his replacement by former captain Kepler Wessels.
"We need a guy like Kepler to get in there and make the selection and not pussyfoot around with the players. It's ridiculous. Omar Henry, the quicker you resign the better."
And Hein from Vanderbijl Park said the side had to learn from the example of reigning champions Australia.
"Australians are hardcore. They just want to go in there and kill everything in front of them."
Professor Tim Noakes of the Sports Science Institute in Cape Town and the South African team doctor at the 1996 World Cup said the side lacked a killer instinct.
"South Africans are just too nice. That's our problem. Shaun said 'how could you predict this'. That's a fatalistic approach. The outcome is always in someone else's hands."