Bangladesh would have been forgiven for wanting to disappear into the hole that was opened in the ground where a slip might have stood to a spinner at the cemetery end during the third one-day international at Buffalo Park on Sunday. The visitors were deep into the death throes of their hopeless reply to SA’s 369/6 when David Miller stepped onto, and broke, the brittle plastic cover that had kept the hole, which was about 20cm in diameter, safely out of play. Groundstaff fixed the problem smartly, and SA got on with completing their victory, which they achieved by 200 runs. Bangladesh were dismissed for 169 in 40.4 overs for SA to seal a 3-0 series whitewash, which followed SA’s 2-0 win in the Tests. Anything other than two more triumphs in the T20s, which are in Bloemfontein on Thursday and Potchefstroom on Sunday, would count as an embarrassing failure for the South Africans. The home side’s total on Sunday was a record high in their 21 ODIs against these opponents and in all 22 g...
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