Sinister southpaws not left behind in SA

Times Media

TELFORD VICE, Johannesburg

SA capped 37 test players in the 10-and-a-half years that separated the debuts of Brett Schultz and Charl Willoughby. Unlike Schultz and Willoughby, cackhanded quicks both, not one of the 37 was a left-arm fast bowler.

Of the 38 test caps SA have handed to seam bowlers of any stripe – including allrounders – since the end of isolation, only four have gone to southpaw slingers. That, at least, dovetails with the fact that around 10% of the world’s population...