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NEIL MANTHORP: Team from which little was expected may turn out to be the Proteas side to beat them all
Kagiso Rabada receives high praise while teammate Temba Bavuma reaches cult status, writes Neil Manthorp
There is a strong chance that the South African team which arrived on Australia’s shores almost a month ago carried the lowest expectations of the seven which have toured since 1993-94, yet they may deliver the most of any. One of its three superstars and the captain, AB de Villiers, has played no part; Dale Steyn took a single wicket before breaking down permanently, and Hashim Amla has scored just 49 runs so far. Yet with two days to go of the second Test at the Bellerive Oval, they face the possibility of going 2-0 up and winning the series with a game to spare. Should that happen, the Proteas will have a very real chance of inflicting the gravest humiliation on their hosts in their 140-year Test history. A unique home whitewash. Not even the great West Indian teams of the 1980s, who are currently the only tourists to have won three consecutive series in Australia, managed to win every game. Should the Proteas win this series it would also be their third in a row. There was a cal...
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