John Bishop | SA cricket legend Vince van der Bijl giving back to the sport at grassroots level | Sport

Vince van der Bijl. (Lee Warren/Gallo Images)

Legendary former Natal fast bowler Vince van der Bijl had a remarkable cricket career and is now dedicating his efforts at helping underprivileged kids play sport. John Bishop reports.

He was a giant of a fast bowler, widely considered the finest never to have played Test cricket, “a prodigious talent” in the words of former England and his Middlesex captain Mike Brearley. 

Today Vince van der Bijl looks, for all the world, like a former pace bowler who has spent his career trundling up the hill, bending his back into the strong south-easter.