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Don’t try to reinvent the wheel, Domingo tells Proteas

“You have to play like you don’t care, but you have to care a lot.”

These are the words of Grant Elliott. Yes, that Elliott, the Joburg-born Kiwi who killed the dreams of his former South African compatriots in that drama-filled 2015 ICC World Cup semi-final at Eden Park.

Sitting in the opposing dug-out that fateful night in Auckland was Russell Domingo.

It was his unenviable task to console a crestfallen group of players. They could give nothing more than what they did... not a drop left in the tank, all their energies laid

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