Bavuma up for the fight
Proteas batsman ready to build on his half-century in the first Test
In the indoor nets deep in the bowels of the Basin Reserve in Wellington on Tuesday‚ television crews set up their microphones and cameras and awaited the day’s South African media conference victim‚ Temba Bavuma. The TV types had aimed their devices at a spot that would record footage of someone about 1.8m tall. Bavuma stands 19cm shorter than that. Happily‚ a suitably diminutive reporter was on hand to serve as Bavuma’s body double and the gizmos were re-angled. Presently‚ Bavuma arrived and took refuge from a wind that roared across the grandest and most exposed of New Zealand’s grounds at 50km/h. The gale is due to subside by the time the second Test starts on Thursday‚ but Bavuma was not taking that as read. "Being a guy that doesn’t weigh that much‚ I might have to play with bricks in my pockets‚" he said to chuckles all round. But he was not being entirely unserious. "The conditions are starkly different to what I’m used to back home. "It’s pretty much everything I’ve been to...
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