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The seventeen West Indies cricketers who toured aparthied South Africa in 1982-83 were applauded as heroes in the Republic but seen as outcasts back home.

All were banned for life from playing any form of cricket, and ostracised by their local communities. Nine of the rebels forged new careers, and new lives, outside of the Caribbean.

The captain, Lawrence Rowe, now lives in Miami, but returned to Jamaica in 2011 to open the new pavillion at Sabina Park, to be named in his honour. It was changed four months later after a storm of protest.

Photo:Cricketers Gary Kirsten of South Africa (left) and Lawrence Rowe of the West Indies in Durban for a one-day international during the rebel tour to South Africa of February 1983.

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