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21 August 2012

Consistency: Why South Africa has been the best Test side over the last 5 years

FEATURE: South Africa are number one. Horray. Depending on how you measure these things, however, there is a case to be made we have been the best Test side over the past five years; certainly if you use consistency as your measure that holds true. In the article below I look at the performance of the ‘big four’ Test teams – Australia, India, South Africa and England – over the past five years, using the ICC Rankings as a guide and see what that says about each of them in turn.

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23 July 2012

Kallis versus ‘Flintham’

FEATURE: There is a tired old analysis that, thankfully, is doing the rounds less and less these days: that Jacques Kallis is boring – not a real ‘great’ because he never does anything memorable. It has recently been rehashed by Michael Henderson, writing in the Independent newspaper in Britian. He even suggests Ian Botham was superior. What nonsense. Here is why Kallis is better than not just Botham, but Botham and Flintoff combined – a new character I have created called ‘Flintham’.