But is it Cricket?

Abstract

Following the debacle of the Cricket World Cup, when England's will-we?-won't-we? fiasco over the game in Zimbabwe, South African journalist Rostron reports that most South Africans, black and white, still see cricket as a white man's sport. Blacks simply don't see their heroes represented. "White cricket writers still seem to live in the old world," writes Rostron. "They should be in the forefront of raising these issues. But every time a black player is selected some of them complain about lowering of standards. We take that to mean that they feel standards were higher under apartheid."