History of cricket in South Africa from 1945–46 to 1970 whose team included Basil D'Oliveira. Although the Australians visited South Africa in 1969-70, the end was nigh for apartheid in sport and South Africa was banned from Test cricket for 22 years. This happened just at a time when the South African team was arguably the strongest in world cricket. In 1970, after South Africa's tour of England was cancelled, a Rest of the World team toured instead. It was captained by Gary Sobers and included other non-white players from the West Indies, India and Pakistan. It also included four of the greatest South African players (Eddie Barlow, Graeme Pollock,
South African cricket team in England in 1998 South African cricket team in England in 1998 The South African cricket team toured England in the 1998 season to play a five-match Test series against England. England won the series 2-1 with two matches drawn after being 1-0 behind with only the last two matches to play. South Africa played a three-match series of One Day Internationals (LOI) against England in May at the start of the tour and then played a short LOI tri-series against England and Sri Lanka to close the tour in August. In addition, South Africa played seven first-class matches against Worcestershire, Gloucestershire, Sussex, Durham,