London — You would have to go a long way to find a man as steeped in cricket as SA’s assistant coach‚ Adrian Birrell. All the way to his native Eastern Cape‚ in fact‚ where another son of the province as well as another dyed in the wool man of cricket has now buried his mother and delivered her eulogy and will soon return to SA’s tour of England. But Russell Domingo could be coming back to say another goodbye — to the team he has coached for four years. "It’s tough losing your mother. Our thoughts have been with him and it’s fantastic for him to be sitting on his couch and watching us win," Birrell said. And how. SA’s surge to victory by 340 runs with more than a day to spare in the second Test at Trent Bridge on Monday was as emphatic a response as they could deliver to going down by 211 runs in four days at Lord’s. How did the visitors turn things around so emphatically? "I know this is boring‚ but it was business as usual‚" Birrell said. "We prepared the same way as for all other...
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