The funniest thing was the way McGain was pumped up by a faction on here to get a Baggy Green for a solid 12 months before that embarrassment in SAfrica.
That would have been because he was kicking ass for a solid 12 months prior to that time, but unfortunately when he did finally get the call-up, he had only just come back from an injury layoff and went into that test with virtually no recent cricket under his belt. Like Shaun Marsh in this series.
He was virtually thrown to the wolves and of course AB De Villiers and co targeted him, as the "newbie" and he didn't have the recent match confidence and so on to be able to withstand it.
If he'd made his debut say a couple of months earlier, before his injury and when he was in good form, there's every chance he would have gotten off to a good start and could have been good for us for a couple of years. The timing was terrible.
I mean throwing someone in for their first test match, against the equal best team in the world, on their own deck, when you're just coming back from injury, is a
recipe for disaster. It's no surprise that disaster ensued.