DEREK PRINGLE

For many, the Ashes series this winter is the one for England to win, following their drubbing in Australia last time. Yet there is a longer-standing challenge for Joe Root and his Test team to address before that, a series win at home against South Africa, something last achieved 19 years ago in 1998.
That series is the only one South Africa have lost in England since their return to international cricket at the start of the 1990s. Unlike many teams, who travel about as well as a punnet of strawberries, they have proved hardy overseas, the 23 series wins si...