Hobbit wrote:I used examples of cricketers during the time that I watched the game
because unlike you I'm not agenda driven, a bigot, or a buffoon
now if you want to discuss it further then I suggest you start a thread in which your black and white view of the world can be explored and laughed at
Actually your 'right shade of white' comment shows you to be all three of 'agenda driven, a bigot, and a buffoon'
You make a point of white cricketers being accepted because they were white, which is wrong, because not everyone accepted them. You also failed to include the most famous non-Englishman ever to play for England, who was the most warmly welcomed of all, because he had fled an apartheid regime. He was so highly thought of that when he was dropped for the S African tour, there was fury among MPs and resignations at the MCC.
"The warmth and esteem in which "Dolly" was held were evident in the many tributes paid to him , as was his part in one of world sport's biggest controversies. Born a South African "Cape coloured", D'Oliveira would have an impact comparable with America's Jesse Owens at the 1936 Berlin Olympics."
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2011/ ... et-tribute
Yet you failed to mention him so you could get in your 'right shade of white' shtick.