So there is a story about Sarel Erwee, and how he used to hang with the South African middle-distance runner Andre Olivier when they were kids. Their fathers had played Currie Cup rugby together for Natal back in the 1980s, but the kids’ game was cricket. They used to play it on the strip in front of the Erwees’ garage door, and they had three house rules. One was that if you hit it over the fence it was a six, another was that if you hit it into the flower beds it was a wicket, and the last was that before you started they both had to nominate who you they were going to be and then try and play like them too.