While other nations respond to calamitous defeats with a fresh strategy, South African cricket's entrenched parochialism leaves little prospect for calculated regeneration ©BCCI
It was always going to be a tall order - indeed, an order of Himalayan proportions - for this Proteas side to come away from India with a Test win, let alone a series victory. This is a fragile side, both in confidence and form, and the longer the series progressed, the more Virat Kohli sensed this and strategised accordingly.
The ultimate indignity for what has become a rabble of the injured and broken was that they were undone by pace at the end. Mohammed Shami and Umesh Yadav, with his skiddy, fire-breathing pace, being the destroyers this time, sharing 10 wickets between them in the
