Stark disparities separate SA and Zimbabwe

Times Media

TELFORD VICE, Harare

For Hamilton Masakadza and Brendan Taylor, Zimbabwe’s last test series against SA, in March, 2005 will be too fresh for comfort when the teams clash in a one-off match in Harare on Saturday.

“At the team meeting before the first test at Newlands, I said, ‘Guys, Jacques Kallis is struggling with his inswinger, but he still has the one that goes the other way’,” Masakadza said yesterday.

The next day, Masakadza scratched his way to six off 37 balls. Then he shoulder...