So political meddling is in South African cricket too. In that case, I should say every sport is now openly corrupted. Many countries in football and cricket are doing these. They are preferring their own people over more able players in the teams. And people in the board. There is also a certain level of hypocrisy with them
By the looks of it, political meddling will never stop. As power corrupts people, even the best of us. So nobody is a saint and no sports team is free of politics. 'no politics in sports' is just a movement which actually has no movement