Proteas suffer Johannesburg hangover
Alex Brown writes in the Sydney Morning Herald South Africa’s first-Test defeat doesn’t seem to have happened
Peter English
25-Feb-2013
Alex Brown writes in the Sydney Morning Herald South Africa’s first-Test defeat doesn’t seem to have happened. Brown also looks after the Herald’s blog The Tonk.
The evening after South Africa slumped to a seven-wicket Test loss to Australia inside three days, a television commercial for a local sports channel asked: "Can the Proteas carry momentum over to the Test series?"
And the very next morning, Cape Town's largest-circulation Sunday newspaper carried just one story on South Africa's Test loss, but detailed the previous week's one-day win over Australia in the news, sport, business and opinion pages. Readers even received a free souvenir medal of the one-day encounter.
In the same paper Peter Roebuck says Australia deserved their victory.
If the Australians can find some tape to put across their legspinner's mouth (they'd better buy an entire roll), a means of stopping Michael Kasprowicz overstepping and Andrew Symonds from taking the wrong risks, they can look forward to more happy days on the continent.
Ben Dorries comments in The Courier-Mail world order has been restored.
Peter English is former Australasia editor of ESPNcricinfo