NEIL MANTHORP
SOUTH AFRICAN WRITER AND BROADCASTER

Temba Bavuma has the cricketing world at his feet. Well, the South African cricket world, anyway. He reached 1,000 runs in his 35th innings at the Oval at an average of a shade under 32. He is the first to tell you it’s not good enough for an international batsman. What he won’t tell you, because he almost certainly doesn’t know, is that in 12 of those innings he has walked to the crease with his side having less than 100 runs on the board.
On half of those occasions, he has passed 50 and has scored alm...