They arrived a band of misfits, sporting gunslingers who had chosen cricket over country and money over morals, and they were to all pay a high price for it – but the truth of the West Indies' rebel tours of South Africa in the apartheid era has never been black and white.

Theirs is a story not just of racism and ethics, but of the gap between rich and poor, of hypocrisy, of ambition, of ego, of macho anti-authoritarianism and of the shifting attitudes in sport and politics at the time that would significantly reshape the world we live in now.