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PROTEAS’ GOLDEN ERA IS FINALLY AT AN END

by
The Cricket Paper Team
18 August 2019

TRISTAN LAVALETTE

@trislavalette
In the mid-2000s, South Africa were struggling. After a highly successful period following their readmission in 1992, South African cricket hadn’t totally recovered from match fixing revelations in 2000 that culminated in revered captain Hansie Cronje being banned for life.
Graeme Smith, aged just 22, was appointed captain in 2003 and had the tough task of uniting South Africa who endured a tough patch for a few years shortly after. South Africa lost five consecutive Tests in the mid- 2000s to Australia, including embarrassingly losing three straigh...