Derek Pringle charts the often chequered history of Rest of the World cricket teams as one prepares to tour Pakistan
News that a Rest of the World team will travel to Pakistan to play three T20 games in September will have piqued the interest of many, not least those cricketers bold enough to travel there for US$100,000, the purported fee for participation.
Rest of the World XIs (RoWs) are nothing new even if the reasons for assembling them have differed from era to era. The first ones came to prominence in the wake of South Africa’s ban from international cricket in 1970. Due to t...