South Africa embroiled in quota quibble

Sports minister denies he influenced player choices in Cup semifinal

Did South Africa's cricket team drop a white player and replace him with an injured black player for a World Cup semifinal match to make its lineup more racially acceptable?

The question has revived an uncomfortable conversation over race and change in South African sport, where the two most successful national teams - cricket and rugby - are still mainly white more than two decades after the end of apartheid.