Former South African bowler Makhaya Ntini has been appointed on a
two-year contract as assistant national team coach in charge of bowling,
with effect from the 16th of next month. The former bowling coach, Douglas Hondo, has been re-assigned to the Zimbabwe A team.
Ntini,
aged 38, had an illustrious playing career for South Africa, rising
from being a product of the then United Cricket Board’s development
programme to becoming the country’s first black African international
cricketer. In 2003, he became the first South African to take 10 wickets
in a Test match at the hallowed Lord’s ground in England. In 2008, he
claimed 13 wickets for 132 runs in Test match against the West Indies –
the best figures ever by a South African in that format of the game.
Ntini
retired from international cricket in 2010, after playing 101 Test
matches, 173 One-Day International (ODI) and 10 Twenty20 International
matches for South Africa.
