Barbed Wire and Cucumber Sandwiches

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.

Cricket, jocul bland de vara al Angliei, a fost zguduit pana la capat de demonstratii, greve, arestari si violenta pe fondul cresterii dezgustului global fata de apartheid, inaintea turneului planificat pentru Africa de Sud din 1970. Unul dintre principalii istorici sociali ai sportului spune povestea uimitoare a unui turneu de cricket incadrat intr-un peisaj de istorie sociala turbulenta.