Tsotslowbe and NoMorne Morkel

The Champions Trophy got underway in cold and overcast Cardiff with an unusual opening ceremony involving soldiers in bearskins, beating drums with burning sticks. Not everyone was impressed.

South Africa suffered an early setback, as Dale Steyn missed out with injury.

With Steyn, Jacques Kallis and Graeme Smith not playing, the South African outfit looked like it had been cobbled together with whatever was available. A bit like their... outfit.

In Steyn's absence, the rest of the attack barely held it together. The bowling was predominantly short-pitched medium pace. Rohit Sharma took a liking to it quickly.

Even South Africa's usually sound fielding withered away.

Despite a mid-innings wobble, India recovered through Ravindra Jadeja to post 331 for 7. Lonwabo Tsotsobe and Rory Klienveldt suffered the most, going for 164 runs between them.

Worse was to come, when David Miller was run out following a terrible mix-up with Faf du Plessis.

Harsha Bhogle declared on air that du Plessis would have to play the innings of his lifetime if South Africa were to win. Alas...

Du Plessis kept trying, but meanwhile talk on Twitter shifted to whether it was appropriate to use the dreaded C-word.

A flurry of boundaries from du Plessis and Ryan McLaren briefly re-ignited South African hopes. They added 50 in just 27 balls.

But there was to be no miracle.

McLaren made a fighting fifty, and Morkel came out to bat despite his injury to narrow South Africa's margin of defeat.