England’s batters came face to face with South Africa’s pace and fire and wilted in the heat.
Anrich Nortje turned up the dial to 95 miles per hour in a blistering spell of high octane pace bowling, and it ripped the heart out of England’s line-up and hurried the game to a conclusion.
Being beaten by an innings and 12 runs inside three days is as humbling as it gets, but it is even worse than that when you consider two thirds of day one was wiped out by rain. This is a two-day beating in everything but name and has put the hardest of brakes on the Ben Stokes/Brendon McCullum era after a quartet of early success.
