Ali Bacher

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Ali Bacher
Personal information
Full name
Aron Bacher
Born (1942-05-24) 24 May 1942 (age 81)
Roodepoort, South Africa
BattingRight-handed
BowlingLegbreak
International information
National side
Test debut22 July 1965 v England
Last Test5 March 1970 v Australia
Career statistics
Competition Test First-class
Matches 12 120
Runs scored 679 7,894
Batting average 32.33 39.07
100s/50s 0/6 18/45
Top score 73 235
Balls bowled – 114
Wickets – 2
Bowling average – 43.50
5 wickets in innings – 0
10 wickets in match – 0
Best bowling – 1/8
Catches/stumpings 10/– 110/1
Source: Cricinfo, 13 November 2022

Aron "Ali" Bacher (born 24 May 1942) is a former South African

United Cricket Board of South Africa.[1]

Personal life

Bacher was born in May 1942 in

Ali Baba. Bacher married Shira Teeger in 1965,[2] and they have two daughters and one son. His nephew Adam Bacher
played for South Africa in the 1990s.

He studied at the University of the Witwatersrand and became a general practitioner. He worked as a GP for nine years but left the field, saying, "I realised I was getting too emotionally involved with the patients."[3] In 1979 he briefly went into a family business.[4]

Cricket career

Bacher started playing

Australian cricket team in 1966–67, he made 235 in the second innings, the record score for any South African team against Australia, took five catches, and led his team to Australia's first ever defeat in South Africa.[9] He later played important innings in Test victories over Australia in the First, Third and Fifth Tests.[10]

He captained the national team in only one series: in

Currie Cup.[11] He was awarded South Africa's Sports Merit Award (its top athletics honour) in 1972.[12]

Administrative career

In 1981 Bacher had heart bypass surgery, then took up the job of leading Transvaal's newly professionalised cricket administration.[13] He was made managing director of the South African Cricket Union in the late 1980s.[14]

Believing that apartheid would not end in his lifetime,[15] and determined to maintain the vigour of South African cricket, he encouraged tours by "rebel" teams from Sri Lanka, England, West Indies and Australia during the 1980s.[16] 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.[17]

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,[18] travelling to London together in 1991 to successfully apply for South Africa's re-admission to the International Cricket Council.[19]

Bacher managed the South African team on its brief tour of India in 1991.[20] He instigated cricket's first video-review system in 1992[21] and directed the planning for the 2003 Cricket World Cup.[22]

In 2005 he joined the board of the South African Rugby Union as the sponsors' representative.[23]

See also

References

  1. ISBN 9780864866387
    . Retrieved 2 February 2011.
  2. ^ Rodney Hartman, Ali: The Life of Ali Bacher, Penguin, Johannesburg, 2006, p. 84.
  3. ^ Allan, Jani. Cricket can rescue SA from its sticky wicket, says Dr Ali. Sunday Times (South Africa). 24 July 1988
  4. ^ Hartman, p. 184.
  5. ^ Hartman, p. 28.
  6. ^ Transvaal B v Eastern Province, 1959–60. Cricketarchive.com. Retrieved on 21 May 2018.
  7. ^ Chettle Wisden 1965, pp. 884–885
  8. ISBN 9781574882841
    . Retrieved 2 February 2011.
  9. ^ Wisden 1968, p. 834.
  10. ^ Wisden 1968, pp. 841–54.
  11. ^ Hartman, p. 166.
  12. ISBN 9781561710287
    . Retrieved 2 February 2011.
  13. ^ Hartman, p. 195-200.
  14. ^ Hartman, p. 244.
  15. ^ Hartman, p. 213-14.
  16. ^ Hartman, p. 224-45.
  17. ^ Hartman, p. 248.
  18. ^ Hartman, pp. 312–15
  19. ^ Hartman, pp. 323–31.
  20. ^ Hartman, pp. 343.
  21. ^ Hartman, pp. 365.
  22. ^ Hartman, pp. 495–520.
  23. ^ Hartman, pp. 541–545.
  • Chettle, Geoffrey A. (1965). "Cricket in South Africa, 1963–64". In Preston, Norman (ed.). Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1965 (102nd ed.). John Wisden & Co. Limited. pp. 884–885.
Preceded by
South African Test cricket captain

1969/70 		Succeeded by

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