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Sip,—l can well imagine the delight of the Cricket Council on receiving the invitation to send a team to the West Indies in 1985- However, before council members get too high on the euphoria generated by this invitation, I would sound a note of warning. I would remind them that, by a strange coincidence — or is it? — 1985 is also the year in which the .Rugby Union is likely to be invited to send an All Black team to South Africa. I very much doubt that, by then, South Africa will have been transformed into an acceptable replica of, say, Nigeria or Uganda. Ergo, when, the Rugby Union duly accepts that invita--tion, the . Cricket Council will, yet again, be told our cricketers are persona non grata. Strange how’the Rugby Union and the Socialist. Unity Party have one outstanding gift in common: the ability to spread alarm and despondency.—Yours, etc., LES BOGREN. April 18, 1982.
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