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The Real Science of Sport Podcast

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The Power of Heroes in Cricket

I still think the best way of developing any sport is to create heroes within the sport. Once you do that, you create players of colour. In English cricket, for instance, will bring through more players of colour as a result of them seeing players of colour performing. It's the same thing that's happening in South African sport to some extent. We've got Célissie as our national rugby captain. I think he's done a huge amount to bring that sport into the minds of people of colour in South Africa. Whereas there's no much harm to development you do. That's probably the single most important bit of that. But gathering from this sport here, what you need

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