JOHANNESBURG: South Africa's World Cup jinx struck once again in the most heartbreaking circumstances when torrential South Africa's dramatic exit from the World Cup only confirmed one of the event's great truths – the host nation shall not win cricket's showpiece.
A calculation error was the final nail in a disastrous campaign for Shaun Pollock's men who were eliminated after the first round when their rain-hit match against Sri Lanka ended in a tie under the Kingsmead lights on Monday night.