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Alec Stewart bows out
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England v South Africa - the dust settles
Batting performance of the series
It's hard to ignore those two double-hundreds by Graeme Smith, but they
came in more innocent times. When Gary Kirsten rolled up his sleeves at
Headingley, the series was long past its watershed. The pitch was
grubby; South Africa were 2 for 2, then 21 for 4, then 142 for 7 – it
was the first occasion they had been behind in the series. It was time
for the real men to go to work. Kirsten scored 130 in the first
innings, then 60 in the second. As South Africa won by 191 runs, he
could technically have bagged a pair and it wouldn't have mattered.
Technically.
Series review | 5th Test Bulletin | Wisden Verdict
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