S. Africans waiting in wings
NZPA London England’s cricketers will get a £500,000 offer to play in South Africa if their West Indies tour is cancelled, according to a report in London’s “Sun” newspaper yesterday. The report said that “a consortium of ■ influential
South Africans” had met secretly to prepare moves to take international cricket back to the republic. The England players would be invited out as individuals on a private tour, it said. The “Sun” quoted David Smith, who it said was a former Derbyshire player now
based in Durban, as having said yesterday: “We are sitting on bucketfuls of money out here. “If England get out of the West Indies, I can be in Barbados or London within hours to talk to the players,” Smith said.
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