Michael Vaughan : " South Africa has to be the stupidest team of the tournament. If they had allowed WI to win against them, India would have been knocked out "

[Texy]

Vaughn is a massive INdia hater... n yet he will b hired to do commentary in ipl

[New guy]

20 minutes ago, Zero_Unit said:

One is strategy, another is corruption in return for money. Atleast to me, not a fine line, infact a huge difference between the two.

Fixing as a strategy is equally banned in cricket 

[New guy]

20 minutes ago, Zero_Unit said:

One is strategy, another is corruption in return for money. Atleast to me, not a fine line, infact a huge difference between the two.

Fixing as a strategy is equally banned in cricket 

[Nikhil_cric]

No problem if SA deliberately did that and managed a narrow loss to WI 

 

But they still would've topped the group and still lost to NZ in that semifinal. 

 

So not sure how that would've helped SA's fortunes. 

 

 

[G_B_]

Deleted a few posts.

 

Keep it on topic in cricket

[zen]

Only person appearing stupid is Vaughn himself especially after speaking with the benefit of hindsight. 
 

He has disgraced himself and I won’t be surprised if he is already getting attacked by the Twitter (X) bots. 

[vvvslaxman]

Our genius Indian crowd is trying to troll him by sharing weird picture lol He got what he wanted. That channel has a lot of views now.

[Ultimate_Game]

11 hours ago, Nikhil_cric said:

No problem if SA deliberately did that and managed a narrow loss to WI 

 

But they still would've topped the group and still lost to NZ in that semifinal. 

 

So not sure how that would've helped SA's fortunes. 

 

 

 

Plus they would've added a huge risk to themselves coz what if Zim beats them next game? Zim have Muzarabani and Raza who can pick up early wkts and look at the way they beat SL and Aus so it wasn't beyond them. Plus we all saw what happened to SA in 2022 when all they had to do was beat Netherlands to get to the SF and they couldn't do that.

 

I'm sure it was all in SA's mind. If they had already booked their path to SF then they could've considered it but no team will risk a certain SF qualification on a 'what if' based on beating Zim.

[nevada]

On 3/13/2026 at 10:08 AM, Texy said:

Vaughn is a massive INdia hater... n yet he will b hired to do commentary in ipl

Yeah, he acted positive on India before the 2019 WC but as soon as we lost the ill fated SF, he tweeted "tickets please" to torment Indian fans. He is a cunning troll who deserves no airtime as far as Indian cricket is concerned. 

[nevada]

16 hours ago, Ultimate_Game said:

 

Plus they would've added a huge risk to themselves coz what if Zim beats them next game? Zim have Muzarabani and Raza who can pick up early wkts and look at the way they beat SL and Aus so it wasn't beyond them. Plus we all saw what happened to SA in 2022 when all they had to do was beat Netherlands to get to the SF and they couldn't do that.

 

I'm sure it was all in SA's mind. If they had already booked their path to SF then they could've considered it but no team will risk a certain SF qualification on a 'what if' based on beating Zim.

Excellent point! Zimbabwe had beaten the mighty Aussies to send them packing. How can SA take them lightly? 

[Frustrated]

M Vaughan is the stupidest analyst ever.  If SA had lost to WI, there was a high possibility of SA getting knocked out.  Coz SA's next match was against ZIM.    If that game (SA vs ZIM) got washed out OR if SA lost to ZIM, then SA would hv been OUT too.  (Not long ago, Chokers SA had lost to associate side NED in WT2022 and got eliminated at group stage).   It appears as if this idiot spends too much time on Pookpassion or maybe spends too much time with the Pakistani Brits who hv infested the entire UK.  

Edited March 14 by Frustrated

[New guy]

14 minutes ago, Frustrated said:

M Vaughan is the stupidest analyst ever.  If SA had lost to WI, there was a high possibility of SA getting knocked out.  Coz SA's next match was against ZIM.    If that game (SA vs ZIM) got washed out OR if SA lost to ZIM, then SA would hv been OUT too.   It appears as if this idiot spends too much time on Pookpassion or maybe spends too much time with the Pakistani Brits who hv infested the entire UK.  

He is talking from a England point of view. If south africa had knocked out india, it would have helped England in the semis.

[putrevus]

Vaughan is such an idiot and moron. Let us assume SA losing to WI would have knocked India out. How would that have helped SA .

 

 

 

They still would have played NZ  in semi finals  due to preseeding. Plus if Match vs Zim was rainout or loss would have knocked them out.

 

Every English media idiot is whining about India winning the world cup.Some idiots are saying how pitches were made to order for Indian team.

 

Where were these idiots on Nov 19.

Edited March 14 by putrevus

[vvvslaxman]

1 hour ago, New guy said:

He is talking from a England point of view. If south africa had knocked out india, it would have helped England in the semis.

That is precisely what he wanted to say without using the name England lol English fans wanted to avoid India in the semis at all cost. I bet England would have beaten anyone of the other side due to immense depth in their batting even with Sammie curran. But England should have lost to NZ. He didn't say that cleverly. But lot of English fans did not want to beat NZ in order to avoid India in the semi final. Pretty sure it has happened in the past without being obvious. 

Edited March 14 by vvvslaxman

[Ultimate_Game]

4 hours ago, nevada said:

Excellent point! Zimbabwe had beaten the mighty Aussies to send them packing. How can SA take them lightly? 

 

You can't under-estimate SA's performances in a knockout and the SA match would've been a virtual knockout similar to the Ind-WI match. Expecting SA to win easily in a must-win would've been a totally different experience and SA would've known that themselves as they couldn't even beat Netherlands in 2022. A quick 50 at the top by Evans or a blitz by Raza lower down the order or Muzarabani or Raza taking quick wkts would've been tournament over for SA. They did the right thing especially when it wouldn't even have changed their SF opponents despite taking such a huge risk! If they lose they're out of the tournament and if they win they'll still face the same opponent in the SF (NZ). So what's the point of taking that huge risk?

[Ultimate_Game]

4 hours ago, Frustrated said:

M Vaughan is the stupidest analyst ever.  If SA had lost to WI, there was a high possibility of SA getting knocked out.  Coz SA's next match was against ZIM.    If that game (SA vs ZIM) got washed out OR if SA lost to ZIM, then SA would hv been OUT too.  (Not long ago, Chokers SA had lost to associate side NED in WT2022 and got eliminated at group stage).   It appears as if this idiot spends too much time on Pookpassion or maybe spends too much time with the Pakistani Brits who hv infested the entire UK.  

 

4 hours ago, New guy said:

He is talking from a England point of view. If south africa had knocked out india, it would have helped England in the semis.

 

Vaughan is a troll, that's it. I never take his analysis or comments seriously. He's a typical former one-eyed English player who is p**sed at India's success but can't do or say anything about it so he resorts to trolling but anyone can see his agenda. Better to ignore him and not get bent out of shape hearing his under-handed comments about India reeking of hate.

Edited March 14 by Ultimate_Game

[vvvslaxman]

36 minutes ago, Ultimate_Game said:

 

 

Vaughan is a troll, that's it. I never take his analysis or comments seriously. He's a typical former one-eyed English player who is p**sed at India's success but can't do or say anything about it so he resorts to trolling but anyone can see his agenda. Better to ignore him and not get bent out of shape hearing his under-handed comments about India reeking of hate.

Every thing he says positive or negative is to draw attention and for a specific reason. Take it with a grain of salt.  Our bitter, emotional fans are also partly responsible. They just react to everything anythign that is about India/Indians said by anyone on anywhere on the planet.  What these guys do is use it to their advantage.  Some Indians also pose as foreigners online to attract Indian viewers. 

[Ultimate_Game]

1 hour ago, vvvslaxman said:

Every thing he says positive or negative is to draw attention and for a specific reason. Take it with a grain of salt.  Our bitter, emotional fans are also partly responsible. They just react to everything anythign that is about India/Indians said by anyone on anywhere on the planet.  What these guys do is use it to their advantage.  Some Indians also pose as foreigners online to attract Indian viewers. 

 

Yup. This need for validation is somehow in India's DNA. They want "foreigners" to praise them and then get upset if someone doesn't do so. It's one thing to watch youtube videos or reactions to have fun, which I'm guilty of as I enjoy padosi and English meltdowns, but totally a different thing when you're going there looking for praise or hear how great India or Indian players are.

 

Have some sense of self-worth. Why should any non-Indian saying anything have any impact? How would that change the significance of what the team has done over the last 2.5 years? They shouldn't be caring about anything what anyone says and definitely not let that impact you. At the end of the day India has won 3 ICC tournies and 2 back-to-back WT20s. They're the best white-ball team in the world and it doesn't change what others like Vaughan or padosis say. Have fun and troll them but don't let them define your sense of self-worth or look at them for external validation. Think of them as "kutton ke bhaukne se haathi ko koi farak nahin padta hai aur haathi apna raasta nahin badalta"

Edited March 14 by Ultimate_Game