How Desmond Tutu used cricket to call for change

“For 20 years, as the sports boycott tightened and apartheid stopped generations of South African sportsmen and women, both White and Black, realizing their full potential, you and others like you drummed into us what the world saw as fair play and what it saw as unfair play,” Tutu said that day. “I have not the slightest doubt that what you did played a major role in persuading the supporters of apartheid to change their ways and, in the negotiations that followed F.W. de Klerk’s courageous decision to release Nelson Mandela in 1990, to agree on a constitution based on the principle, also enshrined in the Spirit of Cricket, of respect for others.