The season has barely started but SA are already having far more fun than they did in 2015-16. Then‚ they lost five of their eight Tests in series against India and England. Now‚ they are going into a Test series against Australia on the wings of the confidence earned by beating New Zealand 1-0 in August and‚ in particular‚ the 5-0 hiding they handed the Aussies in a one-day rubber in SA earlier in October. What has turned things around so successfully? "It’s the culture inside the team‚" Dale Steyn said on Sunday. "We had this camp two or three months ago where we got everything sorted out again. "We seemed to be playing for no reason and things can drift.…. So we reset our goals of what we wanted to achieve and where we wanted to go and made some short-term goals and some long-term goals.... "I felt like up until the 2015 World Cup we had planned up to that point and then everyone kind of just disappeared and we didn’t quite have a goal or anything in mind." The Proteas were keen ...
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