Tour of South Africa 1976-77                  Tour cancelled             

Would have been England’s 57th Test tour.

(1976-77)

Would have been 15th Test-playing tour of South Africa by England

     (previous tour 1964-65

                  1968-69 cancelled)

The annual meeting of the International Cricket Conference in London on 12 July 1968 agreed a programme of tours including M.C.C. (in fact England) visiting South Africa in 1976-77.

The Cricket Council called off the 1976-77 tour after a meeting at Lord’s on 12 September 1975. It acknowledged the progress made towards multi-racial cricket but regretted that “our requirements for the resumption of Test cricket with South Africa have not yet been fully met”.

The original ICC tours schedule had England visiting India and Pakistan in 1977-78 so the Indian tour was brought forward by one year.

All England tours

Previous Test tour

Australia 1974-75

England’s next Test tour

Pakistan 1977-78

Next tour of  South Africa

1995-96