Vacancy: Key requirement — able to score centuries once in a while. Failing that‚ the b***s to bat out at least a session. If selection convener Linda Zondi or coach Ottis Gibson could place an advertisement in the help wanted section of the newspapers going into SA’s new season‚ it would read something like that. Vacancies exist in those key batting departments‚ and while the deficiencies are unlikely to be exposed in the two Tests against Bangladesh in September, they will face more searching examination against India and Australia later in the year. But cricket-minded types have not resorted to the classified columns of newspapers since August 1882‚ when The Sporting Times published a mock obituary for English cricket after their team was beaten by Australia. Instead‚ Zondi and Gibson will have to rely on more conventional methods to plug the gaps that loomed large in the recent Test series in England. Dean Elgar was SA’s sole centurion despite the visitors banking 13 half-centur...
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