SA take wrong approach, but still likely to win

Times Media

TELFORD VICE, Harare

RIDGEBACKS are good at rolling over and playing dead, but not this Zimbabwe team. SA have been learning that lesson for two days now in the one-off test in Harare.

At stumps on Sunday, SA were 201/4 in reply to the home side’s first innings of 256. Having gone into the match with predictions of victory inside three days and by a crushing margin ringing in their ears, the visitors face the once impossible possibility of not earning a commanding lead.

Zimbabwe’s wil...