England got off to a cracking start to their four-Test series in South Africa, with a comfortable win in Durban.
The 241-run triumph in the first Test, included some standout performances for the tourists, as well as some serious struggles from the hosts.
Where was the Test won and lost? What needs to be addressed before the second Test in Cape Town? And what went on behind the scenes? Find out here...
Magnificent Moeen
Moeen had a torrid time of it in the UAE, taking only nine wickets at 48.66 apiece over his 107.2 overs in the three Tests. He bounced back in style though in this Test, with his seven wickets his highest haul since the eight he took against India in Southampton in the summer of 2014.
He didn't get off to the best of starts mind, conceding 39 from his first seven overs, but recovered to take four first inning wickets, the first of Faf du Plessis being particularly pleasing as he bowled the advancing batsman who was looking to launch the spinner aerially with the same success as AB De Villiers and Dean Elgar had when striking a straight six each in those opening overs.
The confidence subsequently oozed out of Moeen, and on a helpful Kingsmead surface - South Africa's own off-spinner, Dane Piedt, also impressed with six scalps in the Test - he took a further three second innings wickets, including the key strike of De Villiers three balls into the final day to pave the way for England to wrap things up inside the first session. A deserved man of the match.
Elgar excels
South Africa have a lot of questions to answer and puzzles to solve before the second Test. But one posed prior to the series has been emphatically answered by Elgar. There were doubts over both openers, where as now problems persist with only one. Elgar showed the sort determination and application severely lacking in his South African counterparts. At one stage, he was on the field for the best part of four days straight, fielding through England's first innings and second innings - in which fatigue began to show with a poor drop at slip off Nick Compton - and carrying his bat in the home side's opening dig, before adding a further 40 in the second.
Under as much pressure as the any of the Proteas top order having notched only one fifty in 11 innings since his last hundred in South Africa's Boxing Day Test against the West Indies a year ago, he dug in for 246 balls in that first innings, notching his fourth Test ton, and first against England, before running out of partners. His second innings even inspired a few England jitters as he hit six fours in his 71-ball knock, in a 53-run opening partnership with Stiaan van Zyl before England ultimately took hold of the Test.
Broad revels in senior role
Before the series started it was shown that since his debut, England actually have a better win percentage when James Anderson is out of the team than in it. No doubt despite the stats, and this first Test win, they'll be eager to have him back in the side for the second Test in Cape Town, but the success they've had without him - certainly in recent Tests - can be put down to Stuart Broad. The bowler so often in his shadow, shouldered the responsibility of being the senior bowler brilliantly in the final two Anderson-less Ashes Tests of the summer, taking 8-15 at Trent Bridge of course, to ensure the urn returned home.
In Durban, his performance wasn't quite as destructive, but his efforts in South Africa's first innings set the tone for England's dominance in the Test. He bowled Van Zyl with a beauty second ball, kept the Proteas captain Hashim Amla desperately searching for form, dismissing him for seven, and removed De Villiers for an eighth time in 11 Tests - the most success any bowler has had against the South African superstar batsman. Fitting too it was that it fell to Broad to take the final wicket of Morne Morkel to confirm England's emphatic win.
AB de Villiers is human
A return of 86 runs for the Test actually stacks up favourably compared to his compatriots - second only to Elgar for the Test - but it's the added burden of wicket-keeping on De Villiers that is of most concern to South Africa for the series. His glove-work was notably poor, dropping Joe Root - who went on to add a further 67 runs - on six, and Compton in England's second innings. The second error mattered little as Compton fell a mere two balls later but Quinton de Kock's inclusion for the second Test squad is an indication the selectors got it wrong here.
Talk of his international retirement circulated overnight into the third day of the Test, and although the great man himself quashed those rumours, there is a sense that South Africa's superman can't stretch himself so thin anymore, with years of playing all three formats internationally, on top of his Indian Premier League involvement, beginning to take their toll.
Bumble moonlights
Bumble was given a new job for this Test, a spot of moonlighting serving chicken skewers! In fact, all the Sky Cricket gang were given a new gig - bar Beefy, who we found at, yes, you guessed it, the bar - with Athers selling merchandise, or should I say, managing to sell everything but some Nasser Hussain keyrings which were proving harder to shift. Can't think why!
Throughout the five days, the team provided a unique insight into what goes on behind the scenes during a Test, with the Christmas season's football on the agenda of all except a sleeping Bumble on day three. He was in a more inquisitive mood on days one and two when ear-wigging a conversation on the way back to the car between Wardy and Athers, and then looking to learn all about the satellite truck responsible for coverage, before cutting communication.
Our coverage of the second Test between South Africa and England from Cape Town begins at 8am on Sky Sports 2 HD on Saturday.