The Last Springboks
How South Africa Beat Bill Lawry's Aussies
On New Year’s Eve 1969, Bill Lawry’s Australian cricketers flew directly from – of all places – Bombay to Johannesburg. They had just completed a 10 week tour of Ceylon and India and might have expected a week or two of rest back home in Australia before the start of a four-Test series against a pumped South Africa.
Their board had other ideas. They fle…
