Dr. Ali Bacher, 81, has seen everything in his multi-faceted life as a cricketer, before and during South Africa’s apartheid days, and as an administrator, who moved mountains for his country’s return to international cricket in the early 1990s.
He has not lost the zest for life, often travels between Johannesburg and Cape Town, raves about South Africa’s grassroots-level cricket in schools that sustain the development of the game, and does not miss a Test match at the Wanderers and the Centurion. And on occasions at Newlands, Cape Town too. He follows the tough domestic games that enable him to feel the pulse of South African Cricket, in particular the national team.
Dr. Bacher will be watching the white-ball series between India and South before the first Test that starts the day after Christmas at the Super Sport Park, Centurion.
