With another match-fixing scandal darkening its doorway, the last thing South African cricket needed was a performance like the one the Test team delivered at the Wanderers on Saturday. They lost the third match of their series against England by seven wickets and two days to spare. Two days to ache about being dismissed for 83 in their second innings.Two days to let the awfulness of losing the series sink in.Two days to embrace the disappointment of having been toppled off the top of the Test rankings.Two days to wonder what the hell the point of the fourth Test, in Centurion starting on Friday, is about.Two days for Dale Steyn to mull over Stuart Broad becoming the No1 Test bowler.Told to "enjoy the days off" by a reporter on Saturday, Broad said: "I'd prefer the two days off in Cape Town."But as long as what happened on the field outshone events beyond the bookmaking boundary, the game was safe from fatal self-harm. That is no longer the case.Is Gulam Bodi innocent or guilty of "contriving to fix, or otherwise improperly influence" matches in the 2015 franchise T20 competition, as Cricket SA's charge sheet against him has it?It seems he hasn't decided."We have to plead to the charges, which we will do in due course. We will have to study the charge sheet before we decide how we will plead," Bodi's lawyer, Ayoob Kaka, said.For now Bodi "is co-operating with the investigation as much as he is able to".But with up to 47 players - among them four with South African caps - having apparently been questioned by investigators, cricket in this country should be put on suicide watch...