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As his side prepares to line up against England on Tuesday, the pace bowler says: ‘Sweeping stuff under the rug never helps’Lungi Ngidi has been South Africa’s cricketer of the year, and man of the match on his Test match and T20 debuts, as well as a two-time winner of the Indian Premier League, but on a sunlit evening in Taunton he takes me back to a time before he was even born. “They shared these stories with me when I was still very young,” Ngidi says as he relives some of the pain his parents endured while living under apartheid.“My dad was a petrol attendant and a white customer wouldn’t even put the money in his hand. He just threw it on the floor. Continue reading...