If you want to know how people can rub along together, then take a look at English cricket. It’s not perfect. Many cricket-lovers have argued that too many “foreign” players come here as a matter of expedience, and the careers of Kevin Pietersen and Jonathan Trott, both South African-born, suggest they have a case. On the whole, though, English cricket is stronger for the players who have come here, from Ranji to Basil D’Oliveira, the Cape Coloured, who was denied a career in apartheid South Africa, to young Jordan. It shows what a tolerant country we are.