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Official handbook for Bristol West Indian Cricket Club, 2007
Guy Reid-Bailey recalls that many teams in the 1960s would refuse to play the BWICC
because its members were black. The team regularly had to travel 50 miles or more for a
match, often accompanied by six coach-loads of supporters.