Sign up with GoogleAn article at cricinfo (http://content.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/current/story/399974.html) that makes for some good reading. Maybe we must just have a second of silence - nothing more! - for the originators of the game.
Seems SA is by far the most difficult place for a touring team to win!
Win-loss ratio in home ODIs since Jan 2004
Team Played Won Lost Ratio
South Africa 53 41 7 5.85
Australia 70 46 19 2.42
New Zealand 55 32 18 1.77
India 52 31 19 1.63
Pakistan 47 29 18 1.61
Sri Lanka 46 27 17 1.58
Bangladesh 47 23 24 0.95
England 52 23 24 0.95
West Indies 49 22 24 0.91
Zimbabwe 44 9 35 0.25
Seems SA is by far the most difficult place for a touring team to win!
Win-loss ratio in home ODIs since Jan 2004
Team Played Won Lost Ratio
South Africa 53 41 7 5.85
Australia 70 46 19 2.42
New Zealand 55 32 18 1.77
India 52 31 19 1.63
Pakistan 47 29 18 1.61
Sri Lanka 46 27 17 1.58
Bangladesh 47 23 24 0.95
England 52 23 24 0.95
West Indies 49 22 24 0.91
Zimbabwe 44 9 35 0.25