What if?

[drops]

What if South Africa were never banned from international cricket for 20 years, would Australia be the powerhouse they are today, would the west indies have been unbeatable during the 80's... what does everybody else think?

 

[indyan]

Originally posted by drops@Dec 18 2003, 11:00 AM
What if South Africa were never banned from international cricket for 20 years, would Australia be the powerhouse they are today, would the west indies have been unbeatable during the 80's... what does everybody else think?

Remember what sidhu says

If if's and but's were pots and pans then there would be no tinkers

Certainly S.A had a lot of great players like Proctor,G.Pollock,B.Richard's and so on,but it is very difficult to predict what woud have happened.

 

[andrew_nixon]

Well any South African side from the 70s or 80s couldn't have been called the best in the world cos they wouldn't have played all other teams.

So West Indies or India or Pakistan would still never have tested their skills against South Africa and developed as normal.

 

[sachin]

i think they should have been banned for longer for what they were doing.

 

[andrew_nixon]

Originally posted by sachin@Dec 19 2003, 03:03 AM
i think they should have been banned for longer for what they were doing.

They were banned.

When the reason for their ban was gone, they were re-instated. Should the ban have continued once the reasons for it were removed?