GREAT timing and touch are known hallmarks of world-class cricketers.
Those same traits are also needed in wheelbarrow loads to cut it as a master groundsman.
Thebinkosi Wilson Ngobese has seamlessly delivered excellent playing surfaces as the head groundsman at the Hollywoodbets Kingsmead Stadium for over 24 years.
Ngobese, 64, who started out as an apprentice at Kingsmead in the mid-1970s, is presently readying himself for his last series of international T20 matches, which is groundsman between the Proteas and Australian later this month.