Greg Smith: It's monsoon season in Mozambique, it's planting season on the steppes of Mongolia, it's hurricane season in Florida - and in cricket (if you ask Proteas fans) it's almost the start of giant-felling season in Australia.
The Aussies, led by Ricky Ponting, do command healthy respect and, to me, evoke images of a duel to the death between a mongoose and a cobra. The Aussie cobras are deadly. They don't merely defeat their adversaries, they humiliate them. Ask Anil Kumble and his men, the Aussies finished them off to such an extent that they battled to recover for their subsequent series against the Proteas and only managed to desperately scramble (by hook or Kanpur pitch crook) a drawn series in the end.
In 2008 Graeme Smith's Proteas are the agile mongeese. They are undoubtedly the underdogs and, I'm sure, very happy with that label which sometimes offers camoflague for mortal attack.
'If Ponting and his mates are dishing up more Pattinson then the Proteas are REALLY in for a treat'
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