CRICKET
Rites of passage
Some of these Proteas had been world champions before and it helped in the Lord’s final
19 June 2025 - 05:00
While tanning on a beach in December 2012, Aiden Markram received an unlikely call — from Ray Jennings, then coach of South Africa’s under-19 cricket team.
Jennings had an under-19 World Cup in 2014 coming up, and he was underwhelmed by his batting resources. He’d canvassed Murray Coetzee, Markram’s former captain at Pretoria Boys’ High, and skipper of the 2012 South African under-19s. Coetzee said Markram was worth looking at...
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