Proteas thrive on being put to the test as big prize comes into focus
Bavuma’s battlers looking to emulate the team of Amla, Smith, Kallis and Steyn, a truly great Test match team that wasn’t celebrated enough
12 December 2024 - 04:30
The last time the Proteas won the World Test Championship mace Hashim Amla scored a triple hundred, Graeme Smith made a hundred, as did Jacques Kallis. Dale Steyn and Vernon Philander each took five-wicket hauls, and the sterling silver, gold-plated stump with a giant ball on top was paraded around Lord’s on a balmy London evening in 2012...
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