Barbed Wire and Cucumber Sandwiches: The Controversial South African Tour of 1970

by Dr Colin Shlinder, Sir Michael Parkinson (Foreword by)

Overview

Cricket, England's gentle summer game, was shaken to its core by demonstrations, strikes, arrests and violence amid growing global disgust at apartheid, ahead of South Africa's planned 1970 tour. One of sport's leading social historians tells the astonishing story of a cricket tour framed in a landscape of turbulent social history.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781785316340
Publisher:	Pitch Publishing Ltd
Publication date:	08/01/2020
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.25(w) x 9.50(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Dr Colin Shindler is best known for his William Hill-nominated childhood memoir Manchester United Ruined My Life. He has written numerous books on sport and history as well as biographies of footballer Mike Summerbee and cricketer Bob Barber. He has been a contributor to Wisden, The Cricketer, Wisden Cricket Monthly, the Daily Mail, The Guardian and The Times. He has lectured on modern history at Cambridge University for 20 years.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 9

Foreword Sir Michael Parkinson 11

Preface 13

1968 Timeline 17

1968 19

February-August 1969 37

Autumn and Winter 1969/70 55

January/February 1970 78

South Africa: January-March 1970 108

April 1970 129

April/May 1970 158

May 1970 181

May 1970 198

June 1970 230

July/August 1970 262

Epilogue 287

Appendix 295

Bibliography 311

Index 315