South African tour of British Isles, 1970

Reference

MCC/CRI/5/2/53

Date:

1969-12-29 - 1970-05-09

Level of description

file

Extent

3 folders

Part of

International Cricket Tours of British Isles (MCC/CRI/5/2)

Scope and Content

Correspondence, minutes, memoranda, newspaper cuttings, working agendas and telegrams relating to the cancelled South African tour of the British Isles in 1970. Subjects include itineraries for the tour, minutes of security meetings and suggested security measures for the tour including barbed wire and chain-link fencing, suggestion of alternative tours to replace the South African tour, estimated income and expenditure for the Rest of the World series in England in 1970, minutes of the Cricket Council Emergency Executive Committee including discussion of the tour, meeting of Test Match ground secretaries to discuss the tour, report to the Cricket Council Emergency Sub-Committee regarding the 1970 Cricket Fund, advertising leaflets for the 1970 Cricket Fund appealing for money to finance the South African tour due to increased insurance premiums and ground protection, notification to the counties that their players would be insured during the Test Series, press statement following the request of Harold Wilson, Prime Minister to cancel the tour in April 1970.

Associations

Harold Wilson

Subject

1970 Cricket Fund, South Africa in England 1970, cancelled tours, security, insurance, controversies

Conditions governing access

Open

Language

English

Size

3 folders

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