Various
13 July 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic forced cricket into bio-secure bubbles, leading to cancelled tours, mental health crises, and the controversial cancellation of England's tour of India's final Test at Old Trafford.
Pakistan vs Various
3 March 2009
After the 2009 Lahore attack, Pakistan was forced to play its home matches in the UAE for nearly a decade, at enormous financial and emotional cost to the country's cricket.
South Africa vs Various (Cancelled Tours)
1 January 1971
India was among the first nations to sever cricketing ties with South Africa over apartheid, and the broader international boycott eventually led to South Africa's complete isolation from world cricket for 21 years.
South Africa and the international cricket community
1969-09-01
By 1969, in the wake of the D'Oliveira Affair of 1968, South Africa's cricketing isolation was accelerating. The ICC had cancelled the England tour of South Africa in 1968-69; pressure was building from newly independent African nations in the ICC; and the 1970 Rest of the World tour — arranged as a replacement for South Africa's cancelled England tour — was itself boycotted by several nations. South Africa would play their last Test in March 1970.
South Africa vs Various
1965-07-06
Graeme Pollock of Eastern Province was one of the two or three best batsmen in the world in the 1960s — a left-hander of such natural genius that Don Bradman rated him alongside Sobers as the finest post-war player he had seen. In 23 Tests he scored 2,256 runs at 60.97. South Africa's isolation ended his career at 26, depriving him of at least a decade of Test cricket.