South Africans searching for positives in the debris of India’s tour should be pleased to know that their team have stopped telling groundsmen how to do their jobs. And a good thing too‚ what with a series of four Tests against Australia starting at Kingsmead on Thursday. "We have to get to Durban and see what we get‚" SA coach Ottis Gibson said on Saturday. "Everybody knows what happened at the Wanderers‚ so we’ve left the groundsmen to prepare the best possible pitches they can this time." The Wanderers earned three demerit points for the pitch prepared for the third test in January‚ which was temporarily suspended after Dean Elgar was hit on the helmet — the last straw after batsmen had taken umpteen blows on their hands and bodies. Blame that on the bee the South Africans had in their bonnet about leaning on groundsmen to skew conditions further in their favour than they would normally be. Gibson spoke after India underlined their superiority over SA by winning the third T20 at ...
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