Nothing compares to the Ashes. Or so cricket-minded people in countries that are not England or Australia are told. Intensity. Competitiveness. Drama. Nastiness. The Ashes‚ apparently‚ has it all in spades. Any other series is‚ somehow‚ not up to that mark. Ottis Gibson‚ SA’s coach‚ knows first-hand how that feels, having served as England’s bowling coach in their successful Ashes campaigns in 2009 and 2015. So how does SA’s current rubber against Australia‚ which has lurched from one explosive episode to the next‚ compare with Test cricket’s original series? "The Ashes is a lot of hype‚" Gibson said on Tuesday in Cape Town‚ where SA won by 322 runs with a day to spare on Sunday to take a 2-1 series lead into the last Test at the Wanderers on Friday. "In this series‚ I don’t know if it is because of what happened when SA were in Australia last time [in November 2016‚ when Faf du Plessis was convicted of ball tampering]‚ or whatever. "But this one has had an edge to it that is differ...
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