South African cricket team in England in 1970 (proposed)

The South African national cricket team was scheduled to tour England over the 1970 English summer. However, the tour was cancelled after protests from the anti-apartheid movement.Martin Williamson, "When People Power Sunk South Africa", Cricinfo 1 October 2005

It was replaced by a Rest of the World team.

South African squad

Ali Bacher (c) Eddie Barlow Grahame Chevalier Lee Irvine Tiger Lance Denis Lindsay (wk) Graeme Pollock Peter Pollock Mike Procter Barry Richards Arthur Short John Traicos Pat Trimborn Gary WatsonIrving Rosenwater, "The South African Tour Dispute", Wisden 1971, pp. 128–41.

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. The fixture list was published in that year's Wisden Cricketers' Almanack.

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

External links Tour details at Test Cricket Tours BBC article on the tour Cricinfo article on tour

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)