Will South Africas Test Cricket Breakthrough Come?
Pundits may argue that South Africa’s test cricket breakthrough has already been realised with an historic series win over the Australians in their own back yard. However, if we are talking ICC ranking, then the South Africans may have to wait a tad longer before they can claim the crown of test cricket. The battle lines have been drawn The battle lines have been firmly etched into the rich, fertile African soil with Graeme Smith’s men returning from Oz with the coveted scalp of the omnipotent baggy greens but nothing is ever a done deal in the world of sport, especially not between two such traditionally competitive sides. Although Ricky Ponting’s men were smeared with the unenviable title of ‘underdog’ upon their arrival on the Dark Continent, they have been anything but. With a pugnacious but sublimely elegant batsman at the helm and an entire harem of young bloods fighting for a place on the side of the most successful cricket team in history, the Australians have fought back – and
