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The author, Colin Shindler, tells the story of the 1970 cricket tour of South Africa, which was met with protests and violence due to the apartheid system. The tour was ultimately saved, but it led to a rift between the generations and destroyed friendships. Fifty years later, Shindler has researched the archives and interviewed key players to tell the full story of the controversy. He includes the opinions of Labour politician Peter Hain, who was chairman of the Stop The Seventy Tour campaign.
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.
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