 During the 1977–78 season, he took 53 Currie Cup wickets and was invited to play for Sussex.Playing for Sussex, he was recruited to play World Series Cricket in Australia where he joined fellow exiles and countrymen, Eddie Barlow, Mike Procter, Clive Rice and Barry Richards.Deprived of international cricket because of the sporting ban due to Apartheid, the South Africans were desperate to do well.