Lifting the Covers, by Luke Alfred

Luke Alfred's book chronicles South African cricket's attempt to reinvent itself after readmission to international competition, following key figures such as Hansie Cronje, Makhaya Ntini, Ray White and Ali Bacher. It covers the 1999 World Cup campaign and the tours that preceded Cronje's exposure in the match-fixing scandal, and examines how the United Cricket Board struggled to balance its traditional support base against the need to build a new, transformed audience — drawing parallels between cricket's administrative crisis and the country's wider democratic transition.