So you want to be a selector? Right. Here are the most pressing items on your agenda for your meeting on Thursday to pick the squad for the Test series against Sri Lanka that starts at the end of December. You probably will not know by the time your meeting ends whether AB de Villiers will be cleared to play in a T20 game for the Titans on Sunday. Which means you will have no idea whether he will have recovered from his elbow surgery well enough to be named in the Test squad. Also, Faf du Plessis will be banned from playing in the first Test, in Port Elizabeth on December 26, if he fails in his appeal against his conviction for ball-tampering during November’s second Test against Australia in Hobart. You will not know whether that has happened until after his hearing on December 19. Unless, of course, he withdraws his appeal. That is also unlikely to happen before your meeting. Do not think of filling either of those vacancies, which of course do not yet exist, with Rilee Rossouw, y...
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