biography
pronunciation:
[bakher]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1942– )
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| biography:
| Cricketer and sports administrator, born in Roodepoort, NE South Africa. His career was deeply intertwined with South Africa's exclusion from and subsequent return to international sport. He captained Transvaal and South Africa with great success, but his Test career was cut short by international sports boycotts of South African teams. He was a leading figure in organizing the ‘rebel’ tours to South Africa in the 1980s, but rapidly adjusted to political change, and emerged as a key figure in the new non-racial administrative structures by the end of that decade. In 1990 he received the Jack Cheetham Memorial Award for his efforts to normalize sport in South Africa. In 1997, now the managing director of the United Cricket Board of South Africa, he became the first chairman of the International Cricket Council's development committee. |
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