CRICKET’S FINE SEASON
How Domingo’s Proteas blossomed Down Under
Adelaide — First came Faf du Plessis. Then Vernon Philander. Then Australia’s Steve Smith, Usman Khawaja and Darren Lehmann. And SA’s Stephen Cook. Only then, more than 40 minutes after the start of the barrage of media conferences that followed Australia winning the third Test by seven wickets here on Sunday, did Russell Domingo sit down behind the array of microphones. The media conference is, as one grizzled Aussie journalist said earlier in the Adelaide Test as we waited for another victim to present himself, "the opiate of the hack". They can be tediousness itself for both the questioned and the questioners, an apparently necessary evil of modern sport. So perhaps that is why Domingo seemed flat. Or maybe, still thinking about what went wrong for SA in Adelaide, Domingo was struggling to rekindle the happiness of winning the series in Hobart two weeks previously. Or he was keeping it real. "You can’t think you’re the best side in the world when you’re winning and you can’t thin...
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