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A good 10 years after that experience, Cricket South Africa (CSA), a cricket body beleaguered with their own Global Destination T20 League becoming a non-starter, are looking for a repeat of 2009.

Rain spoiling a day’s cricket being played between two marquee teams in a high-profile series doesn’t seem to be putting anyone whosoever under any financial constraint. The players get a day’s rest. The South African board still ends up earning the broadcast revenue. The broadcaster bails out through insurance. Spectators get their refund. Ground staff get their due. Viewers? Well …

The players arrived in Imphal to participate in 8th Hockey India Senior Men National Championship (B Division) have complained of inadequate facilities provided to them by the sports authorities.

India had their first tour to South Africa way back in 1992-93. However, it took them 14 years to record their first Test victory on South African soil. The Rahul Dravid-led side recorded an 87-run win in the Johannesburg Test in 2006. Incidentally, former India captain Dilip Vengsarkar was the chairman of the selectors then.

PV Sindhu has moved on from the disappointing end — where she lost the Dubai World Super Series final against Akane Yamaguchi narrowly — to last year. Always one to count on her positives, the 22-year-old shuttler is focusing on the tougher challenges ahead. After finishing 2017 with two gold and three silver medals, she has now trained her eyes on the Jakarta Asian Games and Gold Coast Commonwealth Games, scheduled to be held later this year.

When you turn 40, you suddenly realise that growing up has been taken over by growing old. And you do strange things in order to turn the clock back. You always promise yourself to chuck up the job and start something new, or simply, do nothing, but the most you do is obtain your first pair of reading glasses.

On an off-day that India should feel better about, much in contrast to South Africa's frustration knowing they could've put further pressure on their batting accelerator, Virat Kohli & Co. may have had enough time to sit down and ponder what exactly had not worked for them these last two days.