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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.
Publisher : Pitch Publishing Ltd (August 1, 2020)
Language : English
Hardcover : 320 pages
ISBN-10 : 1785316346
ISBN-13 : 978-1785316340
Item Weight : 2.31 pounds
Dimensions : 6.25 x 1.1 x 9.5 inches
Reviewer: cynewulf
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Shindler's book presents a riveting account of a turbulent time for sport and politics. The clash between the irresistible force of youthful idealism and the immovable object of blinkered blimps is very well articulated. I was one who naively just wanted to see us play against the best team in the world, but came to the sad conclusion that it would simply not be possible due to the threatened violence and disruption. In some ways it was payback time for Vorster for his stupidity in refusing to accept D'Oliveira as a member of the MCC tour two years earlier. Mercifully the Rest of the World series, happily described in full here, was a great substitute, allowing Dolly to play well against several South Africans. 50 years on, though, it is sad that the racial quota system has driven so many good South African cricketers to pursue their trade outside the country. Cricket South Africa's disgraceful and disrespectful treatment of Graeme Pollock, Barry Richards and Mike Procter does them no credit either. Two wrongs don't make a right.
Reviewer: ANDREW
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: I was so keen to read this. No prose. A data dump. Needs a good editor as there is a good book in there somewhere.
Reviewer: Luke Haines
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: More of a historical artefact than a cricket book but a really interesting and recommended read as people with a conscience tried to drag the MCC mindset out of the nineteenth century.
Reviewer: Robin
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: This is an excellent account of the famous Stop The 70 Tour, which has received many accounts and analyses, but it goes further than that, as it tells the full story of the summer of 1970. The 'Test' matches between England and a very strong Rest of the World XI are, in my view worthy of Test match status, and are shamefully not included in the statistics of the game. They were certainly competed as such, and Garry Sobers has gone on record as saying that he wouldn't have played in them if they were not so recognised at the time. I watched a day at Lord's and at The Oval, and saw some of the greatest cricket of my life - Sobers scoring plenty of runs on both occasions! This is a book to warm the cockles of anybody's heart who was around at that time.
Reviewer: Michael1966
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Depending on your point of view this book either expresses sport's unrivalled capacity to be a catalyst for social change or confirms the peril of sport becoming a hostage to misguided political activism. Although I disagree with the author, I would strongly recommend his book which is thoroughly researched, comprehensive and fluently written. I do regret, however, the manner in which he caricatures and diminishes, on occasion, the alternative point of view to his own. Repeated references to Lord's resembling a concentration camp are particularly unnecessary, tasteless and unworthy, as is the comparison of the Cricket Council in 1970 with the German leader in the early 1940s, made on p215. Despite these criticisms, I believe this work offers a valuable perspective on a troubled period for English cricket and English sport.