When Kagiso Rababa shattered Mushfiqur Rahim’s stumps in Dhaka, Bangladesh, to become the quickest bowler to take 300 wickets in Test cricket history, thousands of kilometres back home, in the isiXhosa commentary box at SuperSport studios, Makhaya Ntini smiled and applauded. 

This was not only because the Proteas paceman took just 11,817 deliveries to reach the milestone — beating the mark set by Pakistan legend Waqar Younis — but Ntini knew what it meant to reach the landmark as a black SA cricketer. ..

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