Calm, clear, confident South Africa have a game to win

This time last week South Africa were wondering what had hit them so hard that it was difficult for many to believe they could stagger to their feet in time to be floored again in the same ring. A week on, they're still wondering what hit them. But now they have a game to win. Yes, to win.

"We're not really sure what went wrong," Rassie van der Dussen told an online press conference on Sunday about New Zealand's emphatic victory in the first Test. "We prepared well and we knew what conditions we had, in terms of the swing and the grass on the wicket." Despite that the Kiwis won by an innings and 276 runs in only seven sessions, inflicting South Africa's second-heaviest defeat.

The South Africans had five days to try and pull themselves together before they had to return to Hagley Oval for the second Test. And here they are,