The beginning of the end for Boucher

There have been very few South African cricketers that I have cared about at all.

Andre Nel, Pat Symcox and Brian McMillan were all favourites, but mostly because I assumed they were all insane, a character flaw I like in cricketers.

Of the cricketers that are less likely to kill you, Mark Boucher is the one South African who I admire the most.

I probably shouldn't. Boucher's record with the bat is poor for a modern keeper, and while he started brilliantly (even breaking a record of the...