Recalling Windies Rebel Tour of Apartheid South Africa 30 years on
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Jamaica (Jamaica Observer): Rumours of a rebel West Indies cricket tour of South Africa were rife when West Indies Cricket Board of Control (WICBC) president Alan Rae made his way to the Terra Nova Hotel in January 1983 for a pre-Shell Shield luncheon. The Guyana fast-bowler Colin Croft had left for the racist republic just days before and Rae was concerned that Jamaica's Shell Shield captain, Lawrence Rowe, would join him. In a 1999 interview with the Jamaica Observer, Rae said he passed a note to Rowe before addressing the function. "I wrote, 'I have to make a speech before this luncheon is finished. Is it true you're going to South Africa?' He wrote at the bottom of the paper that, 'I'm staying', and I got up and praised him to the highest heavens," Rae recalled.
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