Proteas ignore the 'cupcake' bait ahead of clash

PROTEAS coach Shukri Conrad wasn’t taking the bait on the “cupcake” saga that has erupted in India ahead of his team’s much-anticipated ICC T20 World Cup Super Eights clash against the hosts in Ahmedabad tomorrow.

- ZAAHIER ADAMS

Broadcaster Star Sports has ramped up the tension between the two sides, who met in the last T20 World Cup final two years ago in Barbados, when India claimed victory and their second T20 World Cup crown by a mere seven runs.

An advertisement for the game makes reference to the Kensington Oval final when Aiden Markram’s team required 30 runs off 30 balls, but failed to get over the line and pushes the narrative further by drawing on the Proteas’ historic “choker” label with the South African fan beginning to cough after taking a bite of a cupcake.