Canterbury — Perspective is more valuable to a cricket team than runs and wickets‚ and doubly so when players are forced out of their comfort zone — which has happened to SA in England.As if a disappointing one-day series was not bad enough‚ SA crashed out of the Champions Trophy in a fashion remarkable even for them and their torrid tournament history.Then followed a shocker in the first T20 in Southampton on Wednesday when they dawdled to a total of 142/3‚ which England bettered with nine wickets standing and 5.3 overs to spare.Even considering the format and the visitors’ line-up‚ which was drawn from an experimental squad‚ that is a hiding.The teams meet again in Taunton on Friday and in Cardiff on Sunday.Only then will we reach the main course of the English summer: the Test series.Right now that is a foreboding thought‚ and less because of the way SA are playing — poor though that is — than the way they seem to be thinking."I know it doesn’t look like it losing by five-odd ove...
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