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Black rowers from South Africa are challenging not just sporting norms, but the colonial legacy that still shapes global access to water and opportunity, writes LEAH WILLINGHAM
IT USED to be said that politics and sports shouldn’t mix. This was most ardently heard by politicians and administrators who wanted to maintain links to white South African cricket in the 1980s.
They were the kind of bureaucrats who Derek Pringle complained to about racism at Essex only to be told that “members should be respected at all times.”
Robert Winder’s article on the Windrush generation reminds us that migrants face racism at every turn, “whether they were looking for a house, a job, a drink or just a chat.”
PETER MASON is surprised by the bleak outlook foreseen for cricket’s future by the cricketers’ bible
JON GEMMELL presents his annual review of ’the bible of cricket,’ which provides insight into the sport, and its social, economic and political setting
