Edited sentence: As they gathered for their pre-tour photograph, anti-apartheid activists disrupted the shoot.Despite switching venues to favourable areas, the team continued to be dogged by protests.Even when the organisers gave away thousands of free tickets in the townships, the grounds remained empty.Everywhere the English scabs went, the protests followed.He later told reporters, “He said he was shot on the way from a peaceful demonstration.Humiliated, organiser Ali Bacher cut short the tour, to which The Mirror gloated: “Mike Gatting and his jackals of cricket are coming home early with their bats between their legs”.In the middle of the tour, the government declared the “unbanning” of the ANC, PAC and the Communist Party.In their hotel on their first night, the black staff refused to serve them.It was a sign of things to come.Outside there was almost constant trouble.Police used dogs and bullets to clear thousands of demonstrators a few days later, to which another rebel commented: “The demonstration was a mile and half from the ground.That wasn’t much use to anyone, was it.That’s bollocks.The tour began in late January, but even before the rebels left England there were protests.The tour was a disaster.There were more protesters waiting for them at Johannesburg airport on their arrival and, despite the police using dogs, whips and teargas to clear the demonstrators, Gatting remarked “as far as I’m concerned, there were a few people singing and dancing and that was it”.When a young black man showed Gatting his buckshot wounds, the cricketer replied: “It’s nothing to do with us”