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movement; in making this decision, the Australian Cricket Board had been influenced by the protests that accompanied the 1971 South Africa rugby union tour of Australia. South Africa's selected squad was: *Batsmen – Ali Bacher (capt), Hylton Ackerman, Lee Irvine, Graeme Pollock, Barry Richards *All rounders – Eddie Barlow, Dassie Biggs, Peter de Vaal,

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*Fast bowlers – Peter Pollock, Pat Trimborn, Vince van der Bijl *Spin bowlers – Grahame Chevalier *Wicketkeeper – Denis Lindsay Barlow subsequently withdrew for business reasons and was replaced by Arthur Short. The tour was replaced by a tour from a Rest of the World XI, which included Hylton Ackerman, Graeme Pollock and Peter Pollock. As a result of the tour's cancellation, South Africa's exclusion from international cricket was formalised. South Africa would not tour Australia again until the

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, and would not make another full tour until 1993-94.

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