Maharaj took four wickets in the match, among them that of Steve Smith. When he claimed 5/94 in Dunedin in March 2017, something stirred. Maybe, South Africans told themselves, we should take this spin stuff a little more seriously. Thus was the revolution sparked, and Maharaj was its Robespierre, albeit – and happily – without all that messy bloodletting at the guillotine.
