Barbed Wire and Cucumber Sandwiches : The Controversial South African Tour of 1970 (Hardback)Sir Michael Parkinson

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  • 320, Illustrations Pages / Published 11 May 2020
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Barbed Wire and Cucumber Sandwiches is the compelling story of a cricket tour framed in a landscape of turbulent social history. 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. The battle to stop and then to save the tour split the nation, drove a wedge between the generations and destroyed friendships in an uncanny foreshadowing of Brexit.

Fifty years on, acclaimed author and social historian Dr Colin Shindler has delved deep into the MCC archives for new information and gained exclusive interviews with key players of the time. Alongside the views of cricketers Mike Brearley and Ray Illingworth are the opinions of Labour politician Peter Hain, who was chairman of the Stop The Seventy Tour campaign. Barbed Wire and Cucumber Sandwiches brings you the full untold story of one of cricket’s biggest controversies – the significance of which reaches far beyond the realm of sport.

Additional information

Weight 568 g
Dimensions 241 × 30 mm
ISBN-13

9781785316340

Publisher

Pitch Publishing Ltd

Imprint

Pitch Publishing Ltd

Date of Publication

11 May 2020

By (author)

Sir Michael Parkinson

Pages

320, Illustrations

Format

Hardback

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