Rob Houwing | Diluted Proteas for NZ would be our Test death knell

A weakened SA side going to New Zealand would be a further violent slap to the face for the country's Test cricket cause, writes Rob Houwing.

The unapologetic mushrooming of Twenty20 around the planet ... it threatens to place a further, depressing squeeze on South Africa’s already tottering Test cause.

As new “windows” (I sometimes think that’s a devious, glib and too promo-speak expression) open for the ultra-shortened game, especially at franchise level, so do they gradually bully toward the margins the most time-honoured of the three international formats, as the annual calendar increasingly conspires against it.