SA Cricket magazine editor Ryan Vrede reviews an average year on the field and a disastrous one off it for South African cricket. The Proteas came into 2020 galvanised by a Test victory over an excellent England team at SuperSport Park. What followed was brutal.
TEST MISERY VS ENGLAND
They were smashed by 189 runs in Cape Town, 191 runs in Johannesburg and an innings and 53 runs in Port Elizabeth. Any rational person would have expected an England series victory, but the gulf in class was disturbing. It drove home the magnitude of the task, especially in Test cricket, for newly-appointed coach Mark Boucher. Compounding the misery was the retirement of Vernon Philander from all forms of international cricket.
WHITE-BALL WORK IN PROGRESS
They drew the ODI series against England 1-1 and lost the T20I series 2-1, which, considering England’s immense strength in these formats, and the relatively narrow
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