FOR as long as I can remember there has been a saying in boxing ‘Styles Make Fights’. A beats B, but loses to C who B beats and so on.
England have always found it difficult to beat South Africa and their current style, which put NZ to the sword, fitted the SA plan like a glove.
Build your defence, let the attacker come, just chip away and the opportunities will appear.
SA kept it simple and played the game and not the occasion. In England’s squad of 31 players there were a number who may have been better suited to play SA, but who saw very little if any game time, so mayb...
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