S.A. PLAYERS BANNED

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29763, 5 March 1962, Page 14

S.A. PLAYERS BANNED

Pakistan Tour Hitch (N.Z.P.A.-Reuter —Copyright) SALISBURY, March 3. Three South African test cricketers T. Goddard, R. McLean and N. Adcock, have been banned from playing in Pakistan with the touring Commonwealth teem. The Commonwealth team manager, Mr R. Roberts, was informed today that he would have to replace the South Africans in his side for the matches in Pakistan. The Commonwealth team, comprising players from England, Australia, West Indies, Pakistan and South Africa, is due to visit Pakistan early next month. It was reported from Karachi today that the Pakistan Cricket Board of Control had cabled Mr Roberts The secretary of the Pakistan board, Mr Mohammad Husshain, said the cable was sent under a Government directive because of South Africa’s apartheid policy. A few weeks ago Mr Roberts was asked not to play the South Africans in Bombay for fear of public reaction. A Lausanne message says that the executive council of the International Olympics Committee has instructed the South African National Olympic Committee to work out a full repoH on the issue of racial discrimination in the sports of South Africa. No further details were available on this decision, taken during the 1.0. C. council’s two-day secret meeting which ended at the 1.0. C. headquarters in Lausanne tonight.

Presumably the requested report was to help form a basis for discussion of the issue at the Olympic Assembly in Moscow next May, said Associated Press.