Form follows function in selectors’ minds

Times Media

TELFORD VICE, Johannesburg

If form mattered more than anything else in the national selectors’ discussions ahead of SA’s tour to Sri Lanka in July, places in the squad would have to be found for Stiaan van Zyl, Dane Piedt, Heino Kuhn and Hardus Viljoen.

Justin Ontong, Simon Harmer, Henry Davids and Craig Alexander would also have a case for selection if players were picked purely on performance.

Those eight cricketers either topped or were second on the runscoring or the wicket-taking...