| "Against all Odds"...
This is the theme for Makhaya Ntini's benefit year. And an apt one too. He will have something he once believed was for "white people only"...
This, and some other interesting stories emerged at the Wanderers Tuesday evening, when Ntini's benefit year was announced. Like this one:
During his first visit to Australia, he nearly fell on his back when a platter of crayfish was placed in front of him at dinner. Relates Ntini: "We black people and seafood are not really great friends...
..."It was a crayfish and to make things worse, I could not speak proper English. So I had to show with my hands that I would never eat anything such as that. Eventually they brought me some chicken, which I knew."
And how Hansie told him to just "give it his best..no matter what happens"...when he was first selected to play for the Proteas.
Two limited-overs matches will be part of his benefit year. They will be played shortly before the Twenty20 World Cup tournament next year.
In one of those matches, a World XI will play a South African team.
Sources: News24, SuperCricket, Die Burger
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Against the odds indeed. The once bare-footed cattle herder has made it big. Congrats Makhaya.  | 
14-12-2006, 07:15 AM
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