How does South African cricket stand in regard to quotas and race issues?
Charlotte Healey I would like to think that cricket is a little more advanced than the rugby. There has been a history and culture of black cricket for over 100 years in certain areas of South Africa whereas rugby, to a larger degree, has been the white man’s game. Historians will be quick to tell me that rugby too has a history that stretches back 100 years, but not quite to the same extent that cricket does. Quotas in South African cricket at first-class level were abolished six months ago highly controversially. But when they were abandoned the minimum quota for non-white players was three players and you find that no province will ever go below that with some provinces having as many as six or seven non-white players. I wouldn’t be naive enough to say that racism doesn’t exist because I think it exists everywhere. Fortunately, and very happily, cricket has remained untainted by and large, Rugby is going through a very unhappy time in South Africa at the moment, but hopefully it wil
