NEIL MANTHORP SOUTH AFRICAN WRITER AND BROADCASTER
South Africa’s first post-isolation tour of England remains, 23 years later, a career if not lifetime highlight of every player who came on it. In many ways, chiefly itinerary, it resembled many of the tours before it.
In 11 weeks the tourists played just five internationals – two Texaco Trophy games in which they were well beaten – and three Test matches which were shared. South Africa won at Lord’s, as they tend to do, held on for a dramatic draw in fading light at Headingley where 39-year-old Peter Kirsten scor...
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