South Africa have chance to wake up from nightmare at Hagley Oval

At least it won't last five days. South Africans who have committed themselves watching the first Test in Christchurch, a match that starts at midnight their time, have that small mercy to cling to after their team's worst day since ...

If this was baseball, a game that takes statistics far more seriously than cricket, the clever people would come up with a number that quantifies how bad things are for a team who are