The Troubled Tour: South Africa in England 1960

by David Potter

The South African tour of England in 1960 was far from ordinary. The Springboks, under captain Jackie McGlew - and with fine players like Roy McLean, Hugh Tayfield and Neil Adcock - arrived full of confidence, but that confidence was quickly shaken. The tour began a few weeks after the Sharpeville massacre of April that year, and the cricket took place just as the world was waking up to the evils of apartheid. Then there was the 'no-balling' of Geoff...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1801502005
• ISBN13: 9781801502009
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: Pitch Publishing
• Length: 288 Pages