The colonial flavour of world cricket during the 1950s and 1960s can be seen from the fact that England and the other white commonwealth countries, Australia and New Zealand, continued to play Test cricket with South **, a ** state that practiced a policy of ** segregation which, among other things, barred non-** (who made up the majority of South **’ population) from representing that country in Test matches. Test-playing nations like India, Pakistan and the West Indies boycotted South , but they did not have the necessary power in the ICC to debar that country from Test cricket. That only came to pass when the political pressure to isolate South applied by the newly decolonized nations of Asia and combined with ** feeling in Britain and forced the English cricket authorities to cancel a tour by South ** in 1970.
