NEIL MANTHORP: This first for SA-Aussie cricket will also be a last
Nothing compares in cricket to the festive season Test matches in Australia, where Dean Elgar will lead his team against their old rivals
21 November 2022 - 17:24
Cricket’s international landscape has never shifted as dramatically and as quickly as it is at the moment, and there will be another “first” in eight days’ time when Dean Elgar leads his Test squad to Brisbane for the first of three Tests in Australia. Actually, it will be a “last”.
Never again will SA be a part of the greatest fortnight that Test cricket has to offer. The first five post-isolation series between the countries included Tests in Melbourne and Sydney during the holiday season, but the last two, in 2012 and 2016, were played out-of-season in Hobart, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide. ..
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