Rebel cricket tours to South Africa

Common card · No. 404537

Between 1982 and 1990, during apartheid in South Africa, there were seven rebel tours made by unofficial international cricket teams to the country. They were known as rebel tours because the international cricketing bodies banned South Africa from competitive international cricket throughout this period because of apartheid. As such the tours were organised and conducted despite the express disapproval of national cricket boards and governments, the International Cricket Conference and international organisations such as the United Nations. The tours were the subject of enormous controversy and remain a sensitive topic throughout the cricket-playing world.

Read on Wikipedia