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Bavuma's Proteas has the resilience to match the Class of 2000
Saturday Star
|November 22, 2025
ALLAN Donald shares a special relationship with India.
It was at Eden Gardens, in South Africa's emotional return to international cricket, where Donald snared the Proteas' first-ever ODI five-wicket haul.
Donald also enjoyed many epic battles with India's "Little Master" Sachin Tendulkar throughout their glorious careers, earning "White Lightning" the adulation of the Indian public, and was part of the last - and only - Proteas team to win a Test series in India.
Twenty-five years later, Temba Bavuma's Proteas side have the opportunity to carve out their own bit of history this weekend in Guwahati in the second and final Test, which started this morning.
Bavuma's side claimed a famous victory over their hosts last week at the very ground in Kolkata where it all started back in 1991, and the manner in which they fought back throughout the Test certainly impressed Donald.
This story is from the November 22, 2025 edition of Saturday Star.
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