Since 1994 South Africa has made huge leaps as a sporting nation and part of its international family. Cricket like other sports suffered during apartheid in a period when SACOS, an anti apartheid cricket body observed, “there can be no normal sport in an abnormal society”. Since its inception cricket has been the one sport that has most integrated. In 2003 South Africa hosted the World Cup. Patrick Compton examines the burgeoning culture of cricket….