There is something particularly satisfying about the brilliant start the Proteas have made to their tour of India. The T20 series was won 2-0 last week and yesterday South Africa's cricketers pushed the winning streak into the first instalment of the one-day series with a gutsy five-run victory over the hosts at Kanpur.Firstly, it's heartening to see the team bounce back from the disappointment of a World Cup semifinal exit, enveloped as it was in the sort of controversy South Africa seems uniquely capable of whipping up for itself.But perhaps even more pleasing is that the Proteas' bounce-back has applied a hefty boot to the rear-end of a team representing a cricket board that seems to think it is a heavenly body.The Board of Control for Cricket in India was notoriously the ringleader of the "coup" in which India, Australia and England overthrew the Future Tours Programme and arranged to play more often among themselves - and to pocket greater broadcasting revenues thanks to their larger, richer fan bases. The rest - like South Africa, Sri Lanka and West Indies - to be fitted in; where possible. The rich get richer, and so on. No transformational or developmental thinking there.At the same time, irked by, among other things, SA's objections to the tours grab, the BCCI boss added a dollop of spite to the unpalatable dish by slashing back on India' s last tour to SA - to a miserly few games and costing Cricket SA many a million.Don't argue with a bully. Keep your counsel and wait for the right moment to let actions do the talking. The best response to high-handed, humiliating treatment was always going to be to go out onto the field and whip the Indians.Such focus is inspiring. Hopefully the Springboks were so stung by their Japanese nightmare that they, too, will show "bouncebackability".Could we hope for something similar on the political front? Can our governing party take humiliating failures to heart, fire itself up and let actions, not words, write our history?..