Remember when I said this last week?

"If trends are anything to go by, both the Windies and the Indians got high scores of 408 and 627 in their 1st innings of the series - after that it was all Steyn, Ntini, and Morkel.

Shows what the English are in store for after their 593-8 in the 1st innings."

The trio sure have proved me right and David Lloyd all wrong as England face an innings defeat after a huge 522 by South Africa.

11 of the 13 English wickets to fall thus far for 250 odd runs have been taken by Steyn, Ntini, and Morkel.

You still say there's no guile Mr. Lloyd?

David Lloyd said this about Steyn, Ntini, and Morkel:

"Pace is nothing with guile"

Big words those from Lloyd.

He's talking about the same men who didn't let New Zealand go beyond 188 in 4 innings.

Or didn't allow Pakisan to get over 300 apart from 1 occasion when Pakistan battled to 315-4 to save the test.

The same men who allowed the Windies a score of 408 once and the never more than 300 again.

Or who allowed Sehwag to smash 319 in an Indian total of over 600 but never let them cross 400 in the series again. In fact got them out for 76 as well.

Surely Steyn, Ntini, and Morkel have something more than pace.

Or is Lloyd correct?

If trends are anything to go by, both the Windies and the Indians got high scores of 408 and 627 in their 1st innings of the series - after that it was all Steyn, Ntini, and Morkel.

Shows what the English are in store for after their 593-8 in the 1st innings.

England's opening pair added over a 100 runs against Ntini, Steyn, and Morkel - surprising.

England didn't lose any wickets in the 1st session - even more surprising.

England lost 3 wickets in 3 overs - not surprising.

Vaughan was dismissed within 3 deliveries - not surprising.

Each of the openers lasted 130 odd deliveries - surprising.

Ian Bell is out scoring Kevin Pietersen - very surprising.

Bell and KP are finding Paul Harris difficult to get away - not surprising.

England and South Africa have always been the 2 teams that I have never enjoyed watching - well England for their boring cricketers and South Africa for their wannabe Australia attitude.

Niether of these teams have the supreme talent that Australia possess, nor the gutso and aggression that the West Indies has.

Nor do they bring out the excitement of watching a team like Sri Lanka or New Zealand.

Nor do they create the emotional drama, at least for me, from watching a Pakistan or an India play.

Despite this, their upcoming series has me interested for more reason than one.

South Africa haven't won a test series in England since they came back to cricket about 2 decades ago, England's re-emerging pace attack, South Africa possessing arguably the most fearsome test pace attack in the world, Kallis being aggressive for a change, and KP vs Graeme Smith are just some of the reasons.

For those looking for any reason to watch the series, I think one doesn't need to go beyond the war between Kevin Pietersen and Graeme Smith.

Smith has started with the attacks.

"Kevin and I would get on a lot better if he kept his mouth shut."

The news for Smith is that, KP has decided to keep his mouth shut and instead he's going to put on some boxing gloves.

Earlier, KP was seen practicing a few punches to throw Smith's way.

Come to think of it, why does Smith want to "get on a lot better" with KP?

I wonder if Smith's new found love and brewing 'friendship' with Shane Warne has anything to do with his desire to get along with KP.