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Title: | The Sports Boycott and Cricket: The Cancellation of the 1970 South African Tour of England |
Author: | Murray, Bruce K. |
Year: | 2002 |
Periodical: | South African Historical Journal |
Issue: | 46 |
Period: | May |
Pages: | 219-249 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | apartheid cricket Miscellaneous (i.e. Demography, Refugees, Sports) international relations Ethnic and Race Relations Politics and Government |
External link: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02582470208671425 |
Abstract: | The cancellation of the 1970 South African cricket tour of England led directly to South Africa's exclusion from test match cricket. At some point or another South Africa would in all probability have been forced out of regular international cricket, but the catalyst for the actual process that resulted in South Africa's banishment was the D'Oliveira affair of 1968, when South Africa's Prime Minister, B.J. Vorster, refused to allow into South Africa the MCC (Marylebone Cricket Club) team that included Basil D'Oliveira, the South African-born coloured cricketer who played for England. South Africa's exclusion from the world of test cricket, however, did not follow immediately, and in the end was imposed on the cricket establishment of the white cricket-playing nations rather than imposed by it. South Africa's two major rivals, England and Australia, proved enormously reluctant to cut playing ties with South Africa; they capitulated before the threat of militant popular action, and in the instance of England, at the behest of government. Notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract] |