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Michelle Loots Assessment Task 2: Essay SPLS 1 04: Sport Structures and Sporting Bodies
South Africa RSA played their first Test match against England in PE in 1889 and ever since
then cricket has been a part of the heart of the country’s sporting culture.
The country was banned from the International Cricket Council between the
years of 1970 and 1991 due to their apartheid policies, so the cricket
administrators worked quietly to start the integration of non-white players
into their system, So when apartheid was stopped the ICC was more
prepared to work with the social and political changes. A world-class fast
bowler, known as Makhaya Ntini, made his international debut for in 1998,
ending up playing over 100 Tests, serving as a role model for a new
generation of black cricketers in the country. In the year 2000, the captain of
South Africa – Hansie Cronje, was banned for match fixing scandal that
bringing into the integrity of South African cricket into question, and it wasn’t
until 2003, when they hosted the Cricket World Cup, that the country’s
cricketing reputation was restored. They’ve has always been a great exporter
of cricketers to but mainly to England though.
Sri Lanka The island country was quite a popular destination for any touring teams,
even before they were awarded Test status in 1981. It has a relatively small
population their civil war disrupted life on the island for almost 3 decades,
and despite all this Sri Lanka manage to develop into a top-class cricketing
country quite fast. They won the 1996 World Cup, beating Australia in the
final. The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami devastated the cricket-playing regions
of southern Sri Lanka, taking the lives of many promising players. The country
managed to recover enough to reach the 2007 World Cup final again.
Unfortunately, mishap struck again in Lahore. 2009, when the Sri Lankan
team’s bus was involved in the attack by terrorists who was on their way to

their second Test against Pakistan.
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West Indies The West Indies became the 4 Test-playing side in 1928. For a time in the
70’s and 80’s, their team featured a group of four of fast bowlers and
batsmen of the destructive capacity making their team virtually unbeatable.
Caribbean cricket has always been played in an unconventional flourish.
Cricket declined in popularity in the West Indies in the 21st century, due to
the lack of good leadership and the increasing appeal of potentially more
lucrative sports. They played in the finals of the 1975, 1979 an 1983 World
Cups, winning the first two, the team failed however—with the exception of
1996—to reach even the knockout stages of following World Cups, including

in 2007 World Cup which they were hosting.
Zimbabwe The country’s best cricketers played for South Africa until they were awarded
Test status in 1992. The history of the cricket in the two countries has been
linked. Long before their independence, Zimbabwe was an associate member
of the ICC. They competed in their first World Cup in the year of 1983,
surprising the world by beating Australia.

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In the early years of the 21 century, Zimbabwean cricket had been marked
not only by a chaotic administration but by political interference as well.
including an exile from Test cricket that began in 2006 and ended in 2011.
Due to the country’s political volatility during this period had a lot to do with
the situation – England forfeited their match that was set to take place in
Zimbabwe in the 2003 World Cup, purely because of security concerns.

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Time Line – Please follow the link below the 21 Century Cricket Time Line
https://time.graphics/line/549837