South Africa
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Basil D'Oliveira
Jun 26, 2008: Forty summers ago a Cape Coloured South African playing for England unwittingly threw MCC into crisis over a tour to the apartheid republic
Pressure mounts before semi-final
Mind games carry weight of history
Apr 23, 2007: The lead-up to the South Africa-Australia semi-final
Former UCB chief recovering well
Bacher positive after bypass operation
Dec 5, 2006: Ali Bacher, the former chief executive of the United Cricket Board, is making good progress after his second heart bypass surgery
Meeting with Ali Bacher was the final straw
Racial quotas led Pietersen to leave South Africa
Aug 30, 2006: Kevin Pietersen claimed that racial quotas forced him into making the biggest decision of his life, to quit his native South Africa and move to England
Champions Trophy 2006-07
Bacher backs Boje over fixing claims
May 30, 2006: South Africa's former cricket supremo, Dr Ali Bacher, is convinced that Nicky Boje, one of four South African players to be charged with offences relating to match-fixing on a tour of India in 2000, has never been involved in such activities
World Cup 2007
World Cup will help Windies tourism: Bacher
May 13, 2006: The man who successfully co-ordinated South Africa's staging of the World Cup three years ago has every confidence that the West Indies can pull off a grand event next year
1970
Sobers's Rhodesian misjudgment
Feb 4, 2006: Martin Williamson on Garry Sobers's big mistake when he played cricket in Rhodesia
January 2006
Jan 1, 2006: South Africa's 4-0 clean sweep of Australia in 1969-70 showcased some of the game's all-time greats yet none of them ever played Test cricket again
Eddie Barlow 1940-2005
Bacher mourns the passing of an inspirational allrounder
Dec 31, 2005: Ali Bacher, the former CEO of the South African board, mourned the death of Eddie Barlow, the former South African allrounder, who died after a long battle against illness
Umpires need help
Bacher calls for more use of TV replays
Apr 28, 2005: Ali Bacher has said that umpires should be allowed to use television replays to help them in making lbw decisions
Omar Henry
'I considered myself a pioneer'
Dec 1, 2004: Omar Henry was nearly 41 when he made his Test debut against India at Durban in 1992-93, after representing South Africa in a few rebel Tests in the mid-1980s
July 2004 - English rebel tour to South Africa, 1989
Jun 28, 2004: The 1980s was the era of rebel tours
Krish Mackerdhuj 1939-2004
The smiling face of South African cricket
May 26, 2004: Cricket lost one of its most dedicated and colourful servants on Wednesday when Krish Mackerdhuj, the first black president of South Africa's United Cricket Board (UCB), died in hospital in Durban
Ali Bacher
Apr 14, 2004: Ali Bacher talks about his new book ..
Beyond the boundary
Bacher chosen to deliver Sir Frank Worrell Memorial Lecture
Jan 2, 2004: Dr
May 24, 2003: 1942 Birth of the Godfather of South African cricket
Bacher asks England to make up their mind quickly
Feb 11, 2003: Dr Ali Bacher, executive director of the 2003 World Cup, has made an urgent and passionate call to the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) CEO Tim Lamb to announce a final decision on whether his team will play in Zimbabwe or not
Australians won't have to shake Mugabe's hand: Bacher
Jan 31, 2003: POTCHEFSTROOM, South Africa, Jan 31 AAP - World Cup boss Ali Bacher has vowed to protect Australian captain Ricky Ponting and his players from shaking the hand of Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe
Bacher gets honorary law degree from Wits University
Nov 30, 2001: Dr Ali Bacher, executive director of the ICC Cricket World Cup in South Africa in 2003, today received an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg
ICC chief 'impressed' with World Cup preparations
Aug 17, 2001: Malcolm Speed, chief executive officer of the International Cricket Council in London, has voiced his approval for the way the 2003 Cricket World Cup is being organised in South Africa
