Derek Pringle looks back at history to suggest that South Africa may find it difficult to overturn an early series deficit

South Africa’s collapse in the final innings of the Lord’s Test suggested a team in discord rather than harmony and pining for their leader, Faf du Plessis. But while he returns for the second Test at Trent Bridge with bold plans and rhetoric, the march of recent history says that few teams recover from going one down in England to win the series – comeback kings being somewhat rarer here than fall down pharaohs.
The current se...