17 April, South Africa v England at Kensington Oval, Barbados

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Re: 17 April, South Africa v England at Kensington Oval, Barbados

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Smith and the last chance saloon
http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/wc2007/content/story/290859.html
“We haven’t adapted as well as we should have,” he said. “We need a bit of luck as well. We haven’t always got the better end of the wickets, and haven’t played to our potential. But **if we win the next three games, we win the World Cup. **We haven’t achieved our level in this tournament, which has been disappointing, but we know if we perform, we can turn it all around.”

“There’ll be a lot of heat and pressure on both sides,” Smith said. “If we win tomorrow, we’ll put a lot of things behind us. But winning tomorrow isn’t winning the World Cup. It’ll be a good start, take us to semis and we’ll take it from there.”

“We’ve not played the cricket we are capable of,” Smith said with characteristic candour. “We’ve got to look at our cricket and see why we’ve not played well.”

What Smith is talking about this ‘If’ factor? ‘If’ Smith would have been born a girl he would have been a woman. ‘If’ his mother was Queen Elizabeth II, he would have been Prince of Wales.

Isn’t that ‘if’ factor true with all teams? What type of sentence **’If’ **we win the next three games, we win the world cup] is that?

I think that Smith should stop thinking about that ‘if’ factor and should start believing on his team and be positive. He should start talking of ‘will’ and ‘would’ factor, instead of ‘if’ and ‘luck’ factor, regardless of what happens on ground. He should start saying ‘We ‘will’ win that next three games and ‘would’ get the world cup’ :).