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Cricket, politics, and chaos: a tour that changed the game forever.

When Cricket and Politics Collided

1968 – 1970 Two Years That Changed Test Cricket

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    376 pages

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    28 July 2021

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Summary

When Cricket and Politics Collided describes one of the most extraordinary periods in the history of English cricket. A meeting on 27 August 1968 to select the players for a MCC winter tour of South Africa started a chain of events which would shake the very foundations of the cricket establishment.

Over the next two years tours were cancelled, another abandoned and finally one of the founding Test playing nations banned from international cricket for over twenty year…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781800463790
ISBN-10:1800463790
Author:Richard Thorn
Publisher:Troubador Publishing
Imprint:Matador
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:376
Release Date:28 July 2021
Weight:588g
Dimensions:156mm x 234mm
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About The Author

Richard Thorn

Richard Thorn has always been a cricket obsessive. Memories of listening to crackly radio broadcasts of Test matches from Australia on a cold winter’s morning and watching England in the Boxing Day Test match at a packed Melbourne Cricket Ground are part of his DNA.

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