LONDON: Mike Gatting, captain of the ill-fated England rebel cricket tour to South Africa says he was naive to under estimate the ramifications of the visit, cut short because of wide spread anti-apartheid protests.
I’ve certainly been the innocent,” Gatting said in a British Broadcasting Corporation television program screened here.
He said he misread the repercussions of the release of African nationalist leader Nelson Mandela and of the antiapartheid stance taken by President FW De Klerk.
“We felt the situation might settle down we thought the tour would not be the focus anymore,” Gatting said in the program, “‘on the line,’
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