African cricket, he encouraged tours by "rebel" teams from Sri Lanka, England, West Indies and Australia during the 1980s. At the same time he recognised that South African cricket had no long-term future unless cricketers in the non-white communities were encouraged to develop their potential, and he organised mass coaching clinics and development programs in the black townships. When apartheid began to collapse in 1990, Bacher immediately set out to form one body to oversee all cricket in South Africa: he contacted Steve Tshwete, the head of the ANC's sports desk, to help get the parties to agree on a unified body. Tshwete soon forged an agreement and the two men became friends, travelling to London together in 1991 to successfully apply for South Africa's re-admission to the International Cricket Council. Bacher managed the South African team on its brief tour of India in 1991. He instigated cricket's first video-review system in 1992 and directed the planning for the 2003 Cricket World Cup. In 2005 he joined the board of the South African Rugby Union as the sponsors' representative. See also List of select Jewish cricketers References External links Cricketfundas.com's Interview of Ali Bacher "You can't be taught to inspire people. You have to be born a captain" interview with Ali Bacher at Cricinfo 1942 births Living people Sportspeople from Johannesburg Jewish cricketers South Africa Test cricket captains 20th-century South African physicians South African people of Lithuanian-Jewish descent South African cricket administrators Jewish South African sportspeople Gauteng cricketers Alumni of King Edward VII School (Johannesburg) International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame inductees