Va-Va-Bavuma: The hero SA has been craving

06 January 2016 - 02:39
By Telford Vice

"You're absolutely shit," England's Ben Stokes told Temba Bavuma yesterday when the latter edged one of his deliveries down leg for four. The mishit took Bavuma to eight not out. You wonder what Stokes thinks of him now that he owns his first Test century, an undefeated 102 off 148 balls. In Bavuma's home town, Langa, just 10km from Newlands but a world away, the celebrations are probably still booming.

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