South African Rebel Tours

The South African rebel tours were a series of seven cricket tours staged between 1982 and 1990. They were known as the rebel tours because South Africa was banned from international cricket throughout this period as a result of the apartheid regime. As such the tours were organised and conducted in spite of the express disapproval of national cricket boards and governments, and the International Cricket Conference and international organisations including the United Nations. The tours were the subject of enormous contemporaneous controversy and remain a sensitive topic throughout the cricket-playing world.

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