From disgraceful to embarrasing

To bowl all day to tail-enders, pick up just three wickets and in doing so surrender your match winning position was disgraceful (Day 3).

To lose 7 wickets in the following two sessions (Day 4) - same pitch, same conditions, is just plain embarrasing.

For years now we have been kidding ourselves that our domestic competion was second to none and that, combined with our natural competitiveness and killer instinct was the secret to invincibility.

Well now comes the wake up call. For years we've shown chinks in the armour and been rescued by McGrath, Warne and Gilchrist.  The parties over. 

I don't mean to take away from the South Africans because they have executed their plans brilliantly, but for professionals, being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to ply their trade, to take a Test Match from unlosable to unwinable in 5 sessions is unforgivable and inept.

I guess I'd better get used to this, although something tells me, those unloseable scenarios won't even be that common for while now.