mate, we never lost it - SA needed to win the Sydney test to take the no 1 ranking ;)

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I think this is as much about the rise of the Windies as the collapse of England (though the Pieterson captaincy was a disaster, and can't have helped)

Well the OD series is 1 each after Aussies disastrous batting (5/19 ouch). Sounds like Ferguson kept his head and at least gave as a total that was only slightly awful rather than really awful. We were never going to be able to defend that :(