IN THE 127 years in which SA has been represented on the cricket field, regardless of politics and format, 373 men have bowled a ball in anger at senior international level.Only 17 of them have been left-arm seamers.Even though SA is not a hotbed of spin, 94 slow bowlers have turned an arm over in the national cause. That is more than five-and-a-half times as many as the number of left-arm quicks who have played for SA.Twelve percent of people are cack-handed, but less than 5% of all SA’s bowlers and less than 10% of their fast bowlers have been similarly sinister.That deficiency was highlighted again at the World Twenty20 (T20), where SA were among the few recognised contenders not to turn up with a left-arm fast bowler.Pakistan and New Zealand each had three in their squads."T20 is all about variation," former South African fast bowler Brett Schultz, himself a left-armer, said on Monday."Everyone says the yorker is out of the game, but it’s not."Schultz said the T20 format had cha...
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