South Africa’s dwindling status worries Klaasen …

… and Varma goes where Markram would love to tread.

Telford Vice / Johannesburg

TILAK Varma shouldered arms. Not while he was smoking a pyrotechnic 107 not out to power India to an unbeatable 2-0 lead in their T20I series against South Africa, but at the press conference that followed.

The question that becalmed him seemed straightforward enough — India can’t lose the rubber anymore and South Africa can no longer win it. Wouldn’t the visitors have preferred a deciding match rather tha...