Best team to not win the World Cup - South Africa, 1999

Two batsmen in the top-ten run-getters list, two bowlers in the leading wicket-takers tally, the Man of the tournament and one of the most respected captains going around in the world at that time. South Africa had everything going for them in the 1999 World Cup in England.

The pace duo of Allan Donald and Shaun Pollock was arguably the best new-ball pair of that generation. Conditions in England suited their style of play as well. In Jacques Kallis and Lance Klusener, they had two all-rounders who could possibly walk into any playing eleven of that World Cup. Hansie Cronje and Bob Woolmer had been widely acknowledged as the shrewdest tacticians in the game. Their experiment with the ear-piece being a