A little bit of cricket, politics and history

In 1983, a group of 18 West Indian cricketers undertook a 'rebel' tour of South Africa. This was a time when the country was still run by the apartheid regime. These cricketers were ostracized in their home countries, had to give up their careers and a few of them died in extreme poverty. But history reveals that these 18 cricketers also accomplished an unlikely task...of breaking the colour barrier in South Africa and 'converting and baptising thousands and thousands of whites into a religion of black acceptance and respect'. Siddhartha Vaidyanathan, a staff writer of Cricinfo, has this brilliant article.