The hard-toiling cricketers of the historic first Test series between South Africa and India on our soil in 1992/93 would have thought, frankly, you were off your rocker.
If you had told them, upon completion of those particularly painstaking four-Test hostilities back then, that a 2023/24 equivalent would be settled in a total of four and a half playing days, bewilderment – at very least — would almost certainly have followed.
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