Australia should have been reflecting on an impressive win in South Africa but once again all the talk is of an unsavoury spat between players
Here we go again. A better than decent Test Match concluded on Monday in Durban but will never stand a chance of capturing the attention it deserves. Events of the previous afternoon made sure of that. Press conferences came and went where the participants argued their corner in the usual way. Match officials will try to unpick it all from narrators unlikely to give an inch. Will anything change? Almost certainly not.
That David Warner was front and centre was all the spice the tale required. Of course he has form, most of it some years ago, but he’ll forever be known as a crosser of the line. Oh, that bloody line. The one the Australians routinely talk about headbutting (their chosen word) but not stepping over. This time, there is no disputing that it has been breached.
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