God help me - the Test Cricket thread

[kruddler]

How did that workout how's South African cricket going? It's new sponsors/owners are the same who own the IPL...politics destroyed the game over there. The local  white business owners won't invest in the game ....see Graeme Smiths views on the game.

Cricket has always transcended politics, skin colour, religious differences etc and that's how it needs to remain.

Simply, bollocks.

Don't care about the latest stuff that kicked off this discussion. But your statement is flat out wrong.
DJC providing some other examples, but i think the South African ban is about as obvious an exception in the history of world sports.