A cricket Test series that showed the true talent of a true SA team

Daily Maverick | 03.11.2026 13:06
The sound of leather on willow; the sound of summer. The Test cricket season seemed to have arrived a little too early this year. A random late October morning, preceded by Test matches at Kingsmead in Durban and St George’s Park in Gqeberha, saw the Proteas at Newlands for what became the deciding match of the Test series against Australia.