Cricket protest
NZPA-Reuter London Rachel Heyhoe Flint, England’s most famous woman cricketer, ended her 25-year link with the sport yesterday in protest at bans imposed on players who appeared in South Africa recently. Heyhoe Flint, former captain, acting chairman and vice-chairman of the English Women’s Cricket Association (W.C.A.), resigned her position as public relations officer in protest at the association’s “hypocrisy.” Flint, who played 51 Tests and one-day internationals for England, said she did not agree with the Association’s action against 12 players who went on a private tour to South Africa in December. She said: “I am not objecting to the ban, but the way it has been done. “This latest tour was the fifth of its kind to South Africa in the last 10 years.”
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Press, 21 February 1986, Page 26
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