Barbed Wire and Cucumber Sandwiches

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 we...