Tour of England 1960          Captain: Jackie McGlew
	Twelfth official Test tour   Ninth Test-playing tour of England by South Africa        (April - September 1960)	The South African touring side of 1960 were not attractive to watch.  The batting was below Test match standard and the bowling relied overmuch on Adcock for penetration and Tayfield for steadiness.  If Tayfield was past his best, Adcock was hostile and captured a record number of wickets.  Yet England, while inflicting an overwhelming defeat in the Test matches, were neither stretched nor served with serious preparation for the Ashes series next summer. The young players chosen for the tour party made very little progress and 20 year-old Geoff Griffin's career was brought to an abrupt halt when he was called for throwing in an exhibition match played at the end of the Lord's Test.  Griffin had already been called for throwing in South Africa (though not in the season preceding the tour) and on a number of occasions on this tour including England’s only innings in the Lord’s Test. Most commentators knew before the tour that he threw every ball and should never have been selected. The circumstances which saw Griffin humiliated were the product of levity in an exhibition match played the previous season; in 1959 the Indians had suffered their fifth Test match defeat in a row when the game at The Oval ended before lunch on the fourth day.  There was a 22 overs per side exhibition match, which was played in a manner which encouraged the authorities to ensure that all should treat such matches more seriously in future - as umpire Buller indeed did. Griffin did not bowl again on the tour. In consequence the Australian Board, realising how its 1961 tour could be wrecked if umpires were not going to accept the actions of bowlers like Meckiff, conferred with MCC as a matter of urgency on what constitutes a throw, and ensured that none of the obvious throwers were in their tour party. South Africa lost the toss in all five Test matches which was an inconvenience but could not account for England winning 3-0 and maintaining a sequence of 23 Tests without losing a match in England. The gloomy weather and poor attendances made the tour South Africa's first in England since 1912 to turn in a financial loss.	Other South African tours     Previous Tour England 1955   Next tour Australia 1963-64       Next tour of England 1965
	Members of the Test tour party (15)       Opening batsmen Jackie McGlew, Trevor Goddard Middle-order batsmen  Roy McLean, Sid O’Linn, Tony Pithey, Peter Carlstein, Colin Wesley, Jon Fellows-Smith. Wicket-keepers  John Waite, Chris Duckworth Spin bowlers  Athol McKinnon, Hugh Tayfield Fast bowlers  Neil Adcock, Geoff Griffin, Jim Pothecary.	N A T Adcock T 29 RFM   P R Carlstein T 21 RHB   C A R Duckworth R 27 RHB  (opener)   second WK   J P Fellows-Smith T 28 RHB    (RM)   T L Goddard N 28 LHB  opener   LM   G Griffin N 20 RFM   D J McGlew N 31 RHB  opener  (LB)   captain   A H McKinnon EP 27 SLA   R A McLean N 29 RHB   S O’Linn T 33 LHB    reserve WK   A J Pithey R 26 RHB   J E Pothecary WP 26 RFM   H J Tayfield T 32 OB   J H B Waite T 30 RHB   WK   C Wesley N 22 LHB	Representation of teams:       EP Eastern Province (1) N - Natal (5) R - Rhodesia (2) T - Transvaal (6) WP - Western Province (1)         Average age of  team at time of first Test match (9 June 1960):        27 yrs  10 months
	Test Appearances made before the tour	Tayfield 32,  Waite 31,  McLean 28,  McGlew 24,  Adcock 19,  Goddard 15,  Pithey 3,  Duckworth 2,  Carlstein 1,  Fellows-Smith 0,  Griffin 0,  McKinnon 0,  O'Linn 0,  Pothecary 0,  Wesley 0.
	Team Officials	A D Nourse Manager M MacLennan Physiotherapist
	Selectors	Alan Melville (Transvaal – convenor of selectors), Johnny Lindsay (North-eastern Transvaal). Lindsay Tuckett (Orange Free State), R.C.Wooller (Transvaal).
	Selection	Mr Dudley Nourse was named as manager. After six days of trial matches, Mr G W A Chubb (President of the South African Cricket Association) made the announcement of names in the tour party to a large crowd waiting in front of Kingsmead pavilion.  Unavailable:  Peter Heine (back injury), Percy Mansell. Tayfield more or less came out of retirement to make the tour. Tour Party Announced :  14 February 1960. Not selected : .	Time between selection and departure from South Africa   63 days (14 February to 17 April)
	Travel	The team flew from Johannesburg at noon on 17 April 1960, via Kano and Amsterdam to London Airport. They were met by a demonstration of 400 anti-apartheid protesters, including Fenner Brockway MP. The demonstrations continued throughout the tour. In anticipation of this, MCC had given the South african Board the option of calling off the tour.	Time spent in England    151 days (17 April - 15 September)
	On-tour selection panel	McGlew,  Goddard,  Waite,  Nourse.
	Reinforcements	None.  When Griffin's tour as a bowler came to an end, he remained on tour as a batsman.  Although Mr Geoffrey Chubb, the President of the South African Cricket Association issued this statement -  "It has been decided that Griffin will continue as a member of the South African touring team but will not bowl any more in this country.”  The tour committee had requested at the end of the first Test that an additional player be sent from South Africa.  It was thought the tour committee asked for Transvaal fast bowler Peter Heine as a replacement but the request was refused, so Griffin was forced to continue the tour as a batsman only. Pithey missed some matches with illness and McKinnon did not play after the Test at The Oval.
	Fixtures/Results	† Arundel Duke of Norfolk's XI Won 5 w Worcester Worcestershire Won 133 r Derby Derbyshire Won inns 24 Oxford Oxford University Drawn Ilford Essex Won 6 w Cambridge Cambridge University Won 7 w Lord's M.C.C. Drawn Northampton Northamptonshire Lost 4 w Trent Bridge Nottinghamshire Drawn Stoke-on-Trent Minor Counties Won 9 w Cardiff Glamorgan Won inns 133 EDGBASTON ENGLAND  First Test LOST 100 r Taunton Somerset Won inns 23 Southampton Hampshire Won 9 w LORD'S ENGLAND  Second Test LOST inns 73 Bristol Gloucestershire Lost 3 w Old Trafford Lancashire Drawn TRENT BRIDGE ENGLAND  Third Test LOST 8 w Leicester Leicestershire Drawn Lord's Middlesex Drawn OLD TRAFFORD ENGLAND  Fourth Test DRAWN The Oval Surrey Drawn Swansea Glamorgan Won 9 w Edgbaston Warwickshire Drawn Sheffield Yorkshire Drawn Hove Sussex Abandoned Canterbury Kent Won 160 r THE OVAL ENGLAND  Fifth Test DRAWN Portsmouth Combined Services Won 227 r Hastings A.E.R.Gilligan's XI Won 113 r Blackpool Lancashire Won 5 w Scarborough T.N.Pearce's XI Won 4 w	† not first-class     Time spent in England before First Test:  53 days (17 April - 9 June)
	Test appearances on tour	5  -  Adcock,  Carlstein,  Goddard,  McGlew,  McLean,  O’Linn,  Tayfield,  Waite. 4  -  Fellows-Smith 3  -  Pothecary,  Wesley 2  -  Griffin,  Pithey 1  -  McKinnon 0  -  Duckworth.
	Highlights	•  Neil Adcock took 5-62 in the first Test and 6-68 in the fifth. His 26 wickets in the series equalled Tayfield’s record set on the prvious tour in 1955 •  Griffin took a hat-trick in the Lord's Test but was also no-balled elevn times in the innings, and was subsequently no-balled for throwing in the exhibition match that followed. •  In the fourth Test Roy Mclean scored 109, South Africa's only century of the Test series.
	Tour Summary	P  W L  D Aban Test Matches   5   0 3   2 - Other first-class matches 26 14 2   9 1 ϯ Minor matches   1   1 0   0 - All Matches 32 15 5 11 1
	Return to South Africa	C Wesley remained in Europe for a holiday.  The team flew from Heathrow Airport to Johannesburg on 15 September 1960 in the same plane that took the New Zealand Olympic team from Rome.	Time away from South Africa    151 days   (17 April to 15 September)
	Finances	This was the first South African tour since the second world war not to make a profit.  The tour accounts showed that expenses of £35 000 were not covered, giving a loss of £4 000.
	Published accounts of the tour	"Cricket On Trial"  John Arlott "Cricket Overthrown"    Charles Fortune "Perchance to Bowl"   John Waite.

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