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In 1971, an international sports boycott was instituted against South Africa to voice global disapproval of their selection policies and apartheid in general. South Africa subsequently became a world sporting pariah, and were excluded from the Olympics, the FIFA World Cup, Test cricket, international rugby union and a host of other sports. [3]
Sport in South Africa had been divided on racial lines since the early white settlers, and cricket was no different. While Walter Read's Englishmen played against a non-white team, the Malays, in 1891-92, it would be 65 years before non-white South Africans played any other international cricket, with a team of Kenyan Asians touring against South African non-whites in 1956.
In 1970, following international criticism of the fact that major international sporting teams had continued to travel to play in South Africa, despite the government's apartheid policies that institutionalised segregation in the country, the International Cricket Conference (ICC) elected to ban South Africa from international competition, meaning that the South African team was no longer ...
The Sri Lanka national cricket team toured South Africa in March 1998. This was the first time Sri Lanka had toured South Africa on a Test tour. South Africa won the series 2–0. 1st Test at Newlands Cricket Ground, Cape Town – South Africa won by 70 runs [21] 2nd Test at Centurion Park – South Africa won by 6 wickets [22]
The South Africa national cricket team is governed by the Cricket South Africa (CSA) and is a member of the Africa Cricket Association (ACA). Since 1909, the CSA has been affiliated with ICC, the international governing body for world cricket. In 1997, the BCCI became one of the founding members of the ACA.
The first-ever recorded cricket match in South Africa took place in 1808, in Cape Town between two service teams for a prize of one thousand rix-dollars. [11] The oldest cricket club in South Africa is the Port Elizabeth Cricket Club, founded in 1843.