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At Lord's in 1998, he repaid the faith his captain placed in his batting with a match-winning hundred

For Allan Donald, the draw at Old Trafford in 1998 felt like a gut-wrenching loss

After a string of defeats since their Test comeback last August, this is a series victory to get Zimababwe cricket going again

What do you do when you know your days are numbered? You score a Test hundred, of course. The first in a mini-series on great South African performances in England

Some of the stranger reasons for stoppages of play, including animal invaders, bomb threats and gravy

He's not naming any names, but all will be revealed soon, says Morne Morkel

He grew up being outdone by AB de Villiers, but now Faf du Plessis has made a name for himself with his limited-overs exploits and has his eyes on the five-day game

New Zealand's hot new pick is a South African who moved continents twice to realise his cricket dream

Mike Procter played just seven Tests for South Africa, but thinks that was a small price to pay to help change an unjust system

During the apartheid years, playing on the county circuit was the only taste of big cricket many South Africans got. Circumstances have changed but plenty still make the annual trip north

Vernon Philander has the best returns from seven Tests in over a century. What's his secret? Hadlee-like consistency

Perhaps its biggest failing was that the match was marketed as a tribute to Jacques Kallis. Only an invitation to contest a pillow-fight or a game of noughts and crosses would be a more ill-fitting way to honour him

Rather than just looking to one or two individuals to make the difference, the side is concentrating on attacking as a team, with little emphasis on which individual is grabbing the headlines

Marks out of ten for South Africa following their 1-0 win over New Zealand

Marks out of ten for New Zealand following their 0-1 loss to South Africa

The weather is changeable but South Africa are steadfast, wrapping up the tour with three series wins out of three

Six lessons New Zealand learnt during the Test series against South Africa

South Africa could have declared earlier and tempted the hosts to go for the target in Wellington, but having dominated the series Graeme Smith did not want to risk a loss

New Zealand's batsmen had shown promise against South Africa's strong bowling attack but none displayed the temperament to play a long innings, until Williamson's battling hundred

Plays of the Day from the final day of the Wellington Test