Sporting boycott of South Africa during the apartheid era earliest days with the coloured cricketer Krom Hendricks excluded from provincial and national teams from the 1890s. However, the cricketing boycott was prompted by the reaction of the South African authorities to the selection of Basil D'Oliveira, a "Cape Coloured" South African, for the England national cricket team in 1968; see the D'Oliveira affair. The 1970 South African tour of England was called off and replaced by a "Rest of the World" tour featuring several South African players. The International Cricket Conference (ICC) imposed a moratorium on tours in 1970. There were several private tours in the 1970s and "rebel"
South Africa Army cricket team South Africa Army cricket team The South Africa Army cricket team represented the British Army in South Africa, the Union of South Africa having not yet been formed at the time. The team appeared only once at first-class level. In January 1906, they played MCC at Thara Tswane, Pretoria, the only first-class match ever played there. It was a one-sided affair, with MCC winning by an innings and 218 runs. The margin might have been wider still without the efforts of Philip Mitford, playing his only first-class game: in the Army's first innings, his 65 not out was the only