SA’s cricketing attention would have been on the West Indies and their three-match Test series against England given that the first of their own two-Test series starts in just eight days in Trinidad.

Naturally, despite losing 3-0, the men from the Caribbean are expected to be far more competitive on home soil. It may be ironic, given the history of fast bowling, but it is no accident that the Tests against the Proteas will take place on the region’s slowest, most spin-friendly surfaces...

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