New-look South Africans will face Australia without drama
A former prison warder, a guitar-playing songwriter, a farmer’s boy fined for smoking marijuana in Antigua and the man who did most to officially end race quotas in domestic cricket - these four head the new faces in Graeme Smith’s South African squad that landed in Perth yesterday.
But Charl Langeveldt, AB de Villiers, Justin Kemp and Ashwell Prince aren’t the only unfamiliar names in the 14-man group trying to become the first team to win a series in Australia since South Africa’s international sporting isolation ended in 1992.
Fast bowler Garnett Kruger is travelling as a reserve to Shaun Pollock, Makhaya Ntini, Andre Nel and Langeveldt but his inclusion is remarkable for two things: he is black and nobody made an issue of his selection.
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