Signed Scorecard from Controversial 1981-82 South Africa Rebel Tour

1981-82 First Rebel Tour to South Africa: Scorecard signed by South Africa & English Teams, with 28 signatures including Mike Proctor, Graeme Pollock, Jimmy Cook, Graham Gooch, Alan Knott & Geoff Boycott. The South African rebel tours were a series of seven cricket tours staged between 1982 and 1990. They were known as the rebel tours because the international cricketing bodies banned South Africa from competitive international cricket throughout this period because of apartheid. As such the tours were organised and conducted in spite of the express disapproval of national cricket boards and governments, the I.C.C. and international organisations such as the United Nations. The tours were the subject of enormous contemporaneous controversy and remain a sensitive topic throughout the cricket-playing world. The first major tour was by an English team led by Graham Gooch in March 1982. Twelve cricketers, 11 of them with Test caps, had agreed in secret to make a one-month tour of the republic. The news only broke when they arrived in Johannesburg. The players expected a brief public outcry and Icc slap on the wrist. Instead they were the subject of global outrage among press and politicians, and labelled 'the Dirty Dozen' in the Houses of Parliament. The reaction in South Africa could not have been more different. The government and white newspapers hailed the return of official international cricket. Apart from Ian Botham, it was said, this was the full-strength England team. Springbok colours were awarded to the home side in a series of three 'Tests'. There were also three 'one-day internationals'.