Temba Bavuma bounces back from T20 World Cup to show his true credentials
Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2023 11:43 am
New Test captain delivers series-sealing knock to restore feelgood factor to South Africa
The Temba Bavuma who returned home from Australia at the start of the summer, after South Africa's exit from the T20I World Cup at the hands of the Netherlands, was so distraught he could not even look up. Not directly at the people who were present at one of the first live press conferences of the post-Covid era. And nor at the Zoom screen either, where several squares stared at him, waiting for answers to a question no-one could answer: how had South Africa slipped that far?
If you had said to that Bavuma that, four months and one chastening series loss to Australia later, he himself would be orchestrating a feel-good series win against West Indies - both as Test captain and as Player of the Match in the series decider - he may have praised your imagination. But that is exactly the kind of magic turnaround cricket sometimes provides.
Source: https://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content ... id=OTC-RSS
The Temba Bavuma who returned home from Australia at the start of the summer, after South Africa's exit from the T20I World Cup at the hands of the Netherlands, was so distraught he could not even look up. Not directly at the people who were present at one of the first live press conferences of the post-Covid era. And nor at the Zoom screen either, where several squares stared at him, waiting for answers to a question no-one could answer: how had South Africa slipped that far?
If you had said to that Bavuma that, four months and one chastening series loss to Australia later, he himself would be orchestrating a feel-good series win against West Indies - both as Test captain and as Player of the Match in the series decider - he may have praised your imagination. But that is exactly the kind of magic turnaround cricket sometimes provides.
Source: https://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content ... id=OTC-RSS