After that horrible hiccup in the recent past, the West Indies players have take the field against the number one rated cricket team in the world.
The mere thought of the position of the proteas tells its own story, while Denesh Ramdin and his men will have to show something special to the supporters.
In the first place, one would hope that some psychologist must have transformed these talented players from the Caribbean into understanding that the game does not bring results by ole talk, but by solid planning and a complete reorganization of their minds, which was muzzled with whether or not to take the field against India or insist that they are paid before doing same.
If the entire team had only decided to take a close look at the Australia versus India series a few days ago, there would have been some wonderful lessons to be learnt. Excellent bowling and batting by both teams, remarkable running between wickets, taking almost all their catches and expert leadership by the two captains, was an absolute joy to watch.
Now the truth will have to be identified by the results of this series and it is only the players who have decided to cast aside their immature mentality and replace it with their natural talent.
Just how they will go about this task, is not easy to explain, regardless of what the supporters think.
In the first place, the hue and cry about fast bowler Sheldon Cottrell from Clive Lloyd and Sir Curtly Ambrose is like sweet music to the ear for more reasons than one.
The West Indian bowlers must be at their best in order to keep the scoring rate of the South Africans down to a level which will allow our batsmen to jump a few hurdles to reach scores of 350 and over.
We must admit that our batting has been way below standard and needs to be a commanding feature of their performances in this series.
We may have appreciated the recent scores of Kraigg Brathwaite and Devon Smith and could even believe that they can reproduce these performances.
Marlon Samuels stands tall in this tournament because of his well known ability to score runs against most bowlers. It is a guarantee that Shivnarine Chanderpaul will hold his own, while skipper Ramdin will continue to show his improvement and maturity that has been shown in his sound batting plans to get good scores. Anything extra with the bat is "gravy".
The results of these matches will lay heavily upon the shoulders of Jerome Taylor, Kemar Roach, the feisty Sulieman Benn, and the extra slow bowler in Samuels.
My optimism does not stretch that far and I shall await the challenge against Hashim Amla, and his team's proven success with the bat in recent years.
With the wickets in South Africa being a bit faster and the ball bouncing a few centimetres higher than usual, it will take maturity of Chanderpaul and Samuels to cope with it.
But the determination of the inexperienced Brathwaite, Assad Fudadin, Leon Johnson, and Jermaine Blackwood will be tested in an environment which will surely be strange to them.
I am hoping for an improved state of our cricket, regardless of the final results. We must show to the cricket world that the potential of our youth is growing into a progressive category, comparable to some of the previous legends who once ruled the cricket world.