Most importantly, South Africa have yet to lose a Test under him. In the most recent of them, against Australia at Lord’s in June, Bavuma went where, among South Africa’s captains, only Hansie Cronje had gone before – to a podium to fetch a trophy for winning a senior ICC tournament. In Cronje’s case it was the cup for the 1998 ICC Knockout, the forerunner of the Champions Trophy. In Bavuma’s it was the WTC mace.
