LEFT ARM OVER
NEIL MANTHORP: Proteas pull together — then Aussies tear one another apart
Not a single member of the playing XI escaped the vitriol of the nation following SA’s rousing 177-run win at the Waca, writes Neil Manthorp
Australian cricket supporters can tolerate defeat overseas – just – but they cannot abide the humiliation of not winning on home soil and they are expressing their disapproval, bordering on disgust, with nothing held back. Not a single member of the playing XI escaped the vitriol of the nation following SA’s rousing 177-run win at the Waca on Monday and there were even signs the players and support staff were beginning to turn on one another as well. It was a time for the Proteas and their support staff, however, to look at themselves rather than the opposition because they won this Test match rather than the home side losing it. It is not often that every member of a victorious XI can genuinely be said to have contributed significantly in a personal capacity to a victory. Even batsman Stephen Cook, who made a duck in the first innings, was highlighted for the 55 balls he faced for his 12 runs in the second, which blunted the threat of Mitchell Starc and took the innings to its 17th...
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