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.[1]
It was replaced by a Rest of the World team.[2]
South African squad
[edit]South Africa 
|
|---|
Revised tour schedule
[edit]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.[4] The fixture list was published in that year’s Wisden Cricketers' Almanack.[5]
| 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
[edit]- ^ Martin Williamson, "When People Power Sunk South Africa", Cricinfo 1 October 2005
- ^ "The Silencing of South Africa's Greatest Cricket Side | Standpoint". Archived from the original on 24 August 2013. Retrieved 9 May 2015.
- ^ Irving Rosenwater, "The South African Tour Dispute", Wisden 1971, pp. 128–41.
- ^ "Test Cricket Tours - South Africa to England 1970". Archived from the original on 1 November 2016.
- ^ Preston, Norman, ed. (1970). Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 1970. Sporting Handbooks Ltd. p. 1083.
External links
[edit]- Tour details at Test Cricket Tours
- BBC article on the tour
- Cricinfo article on tour
Further reading
[edit]- 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)