No need for big brother: Amla is up for his biggest challenge

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TELFORD VICE, Johannesburg

“Now listen, chaps,” Trevor Goddard told a respectfully silent dressingroom in 1970, “Ali has been made captain and we will all support him.”

And that was that. Goddard, the senior man, had spoken and no-one would dare speak against him. Ali Bacher had indeed been made South Africa’s captain, and he did indeed have, instantly and enduringly...