South Africa by Mike Procter & Patrick Murphy

South Africa (Hardcover in Dust Jacket, Cricket's Years of Isolation)

Mike Procter's Account of South African Cricket from the 1970 Ban to the Return of 1992

Bibliographic Specifications

• Title: South Africa: The Years of Isolation and the Return to International Cricket
• Authors: Mike Procter & Patrick Murphy
• Publisher: Bok Books International, Durban
• Publication Date: 1994
• ISBN-13: 9781874937869
• ISBN-10: 1874937869
• Edition Details: First published 1994.
• Binding: Publisher's red cloth boards with dust jacket.
• Physical Format: Octavo (8vo) hardback with colour photographic plates and an index.
• Language: English

Official Condition Report

• The Book: Very Good Plus (VG+)
• Exterior / Boards: Red cloth boards, clean and square, with a few tiny white specks to the front board. The spine is straight. Corners and edges are sharp. The fore-edge and top edge of the text block are slightly toned.
• Interior: The text pages are clean and bright and the binding is tight. A small crease or dent is present near the fore-edge of page 61. The endpapers are clean, with a slight vertical crease at the hinge of the front free endpaper. The colour plates are clean, with no foxing or markings seen.
• The Dust Jacket: Present, glossy and bright, with a small light mark or scuff to the upper back panel. The spine and edges are clean. Protected in a durable archival-type plastic cover.

Synopsis & Historical Value

South Africa: The Years of Isolation and the Return to International Cricket is a cricket memoir and history by Mike Procter, written with Patrick Murphy. It was published in 1994.

The book follows South African cricket from the last official Test series against Australia in 1970 through the long years of sporting isolation, to the country's readmission and its appearance at the 1992 World Cup.

Procter was one of the great all-rounders of his generation, and his international career was curtailed by South Africa's exclusion from world cricket. The book is therefore an account of the isolation years from someone who lived through them, and a useful companion for collectors of South African sporting history.

Author Profile: Mike Procter

Mike Procter (1946-2024) was a South African cricketer whose involvement in international cricket was limited by South Africa's banishment from the world game. After the country's readmission he served as South Africa's first coach and later as an ICC match referee.

His other books include Mike Procter and Cricket (1981) and Caught in the Middle (2017), the latter co-written with the journalist Lungani Zama.

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