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Black Cricket Players ~ - ketchim - 03-05-2023
In Temba Bavuma's early years,
the South African team had no black African players.
He was eight when Makhaya Ntini was capped in 1998
and by the time Bavuma became a Test player in 2014
- against none other than West Indies
- only four other black African players had represented South Africa
in Test cricket, and none of them were batters.
Bavuma became the first.
What he represents to millions of young South Africans
is what Brian Lara represented to him:
the power of black excellence.
Black Cricket Players ~ - ketchim - 03-05-2023
Of all the messages Temba Bavuma received as he prepared
to make his Test captaincy debut against West Indies in Centurion
Brian Lara was among those that meant the most.
"He came to me and said :
'Big respect, big up. All respect to you for the position you have,'
and he wished me well,"
"I had to pinch myself there."
Black Cricket Players ~ - ketchim - 03-05-2023
Temba Bavuma received a message from Brian Lara
before making his Test captaincy debut in Centurion
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Black Cricket Players ~ - ketchim - 03-05-2023
Kagiso Rabada was born five years after Bavuma - in 1995 -
"I have a huge admiration for West Indian cricket culture.
And as a bowler, how can you ignore that famous bowling attack
- the list goes on and on and on,"
"They dominated world cricket at a stage, and the whole world knows about it.
They're a phenomenal side with a phenomenal culture.
I am friends with many of them.
I admired the players that have come before
- they would have played a role in my cricketing upbringing
- and the current players too."
Black Cricket Players ~ - ketchim - 03-12-2023
West Indies collapsed at the Wanderers Stadium •
Coetzee -140kph short ball- hit Holder in the box !!
he required some on-field treatment before continuing
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Black Cricket Players ~ - ketchim - 03-12-2023
Bavuma added only a single to his overnight score of 171
before he holed out to deep square leg in the second over of the morning
Bavuma departed to applause from a small but growing Saturday crowd.