South African cricket team in England in 1970 (proposed)

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The South African national cricket team was meant to tour England over the 1970 English summer. However the tour was cancelled after protests from the anti-apartheid movement.[1]

It was replaced by a Rest of the World team.[2]

South African squad[]

South Africa 

Revised tour schedule[]

The original tour schedule contained 28 matches. The Cricket Council, the governing body of English cricket, met at Lord’s on 12 February 1970 when they decided to revise the tour programme cutting it from 28 to 12 matches. Grounds at which the police would find it difficult to maintain order were excluded from the itinerary.[3] The fixture list was published in that year’s Wisden Cricketers' Almanack.[4]

Date Opponents Venue
6, 8, 9 June Southern Counties Lord's, London
10, 11, 12 June Northern Counties Trent Bridge, Nottingham
13, 15, 16 June Yorkshire Headingley, Leeds
18, 19, 20, 22, 23 June England (1st Test) Lord's, London
27, 29, 30 June Warwickshire Edgbaston, Birmingham
2, 3, 4, 6, 7 July England (2nd Test) Trent Bridge, Nottingham
11, 13, 14 July Surrey The Oval, London
16, 17, 18, 20, 21 July England (3rd Test) Edgbaston, Birmingham
25, 26, 27 July Glamorgan St Helen's, Swansea
30, 31 July, 1, 3, 4 August England (4th Test) Headingley, Leeds
8, 10, 11 August Lancashire Old Trafford, Manchester
13, 14, 15, 17, 18 August England (5th Test) The Oval, London

References[]

  1. ^ Martin Williamson, "When People Power Sunk South Africa", Cricinfo 1 October 2005
  2. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 15 July 2013. Retrieved 9 May 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. ^ "Site Not in Use".
  4. ^ Preston, Norman, ed. (1970). Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 1970. Sporting Handbooks Ltd. p. 1083.

External links[]

Further reading[]

  • Mark Rowe, Tour de Farce: Anti-Apartheid Protest and South Africa's Cancelled 1970 Cricket Tour of England (2020)
  • Arunabha Sengupta, Apartheid: A Point to Cover (2020)
  • Colin Shindler, Barbed Wire and Cucumber Sandwiches: The Controversial South African Tour of 1970 (2020)
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