It ain’t heavy. It’s the mace …

“Everyone outside that team understands that they’re the underdogs.” – Graeme Smith

Telford Vice / London

IS it heavy? Graeme Smith cocked his head, thought about the question, and replied: “The problem with the mace is you can’t drink out of it.” Doubtless Smith, and the rest of his team, tried to do so anyway at Lord’s on August 20, 2012.

Doubtless, also, the experiment ended exponentially more messily than the events of what had put the mace in South Africa’s dressingroom — a five-...