Amla in particular looked assured, caressing anything straight through mid-wicket while De Villiers used his feet intelligently to disrupt the rhythm of the Australian attack.
The style of Small Things is hectic, and yet there is an unmistakable impression that the author is caressing the sentences and carefully crafting and re-crafting each phrase.
You might even see women hugging a pair of Louboutins tightly next to their bosoms or a few caressing the fur detailing on a pair of Manolo Blahnik boots.
Months before an animal fur appears on the head of a Russian oil baron or as a chin-caressing collar on a Manhattan socialite, it makes a global journey that may include a stop in a nondescript warehouse in Toronto.