‘I’ve been a silent supporter of the way they’ve gone about things,” Temba Bavuma says as, in his role as the new captain of South Africa’s Test team, he considers the impact of Ben Stokes and Brendon McCullum on world cricket. “I say silent because I’m still a competitor of theirs. I’ve always seen England as pioneers of cricket, but over the last year they’ve started to revolutionise the Test game.
“We saw that in one-day cricket, which resulted in massive success for them in winning a World Cup. Now we’re seeing it with the Test game as well. They have really changed how Test cricket is being played. We are taking a lot from their approach and, by adding our South African flavour, seeing how it could look like for us.”
