Innovative hosts play a different ball game

By Malcolm Knox
Updated November 26 2012 - 3:08pm, first published 3:00am

As in Bodyline, there were two teams out on the Adelaide Oval and only one was playing Test cricket. That was South Africa, who batted with intense concentration, defended hard and bowled to a persistent program, delivering the ball where it was most likely to deviate. They were dogged and methodical to a fault.

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