South Africa: SA Crisis - Cook 'SOS' Essential

The Basil D'Oliveira Trophy has been surrendered. The ICC Test Championship mace will be mercifully given up to one of India or Australia at the end of the latest annual cycle, a few weeks up the road.

And South Africa, thrashed in the third Test by England at the Wanderers on a sickly Saturday to lose the home series with one still to play at Centurion, are in a heap of collective pain.

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