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 years. Remarkably during this upheaval, and at very
short notice, two replacement Test series were played. The first
between between Pakistan and England, took place in a country where
law and order were disintigrating and as a result the tour schedule
was changing on an almost daily basis. The players were under
enormous stress, their safety genuinely at risk, and even the
country's President would soon be deposed. The second, pitted
England against the Rest of the World, opponents that many
considered to be the strongest ever assembled for an international
match. These two series produced some of the most exciting cricket
of the period, and yet both are now largely forgotten.
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