Between 1960 and 1974 the England cricket team represented England, Scotland and Wales in Test cricket. During that time England played 147 Test matches, resulting in 45 victories, 77 draws and 25 defeats. Their win to loss ratio of 1.80 was the best in Test cricket during this period. In the English summer of 1965, England played their last Test series against South Africa for almost 30 years, due to the sporting boycott of South Africa during the apartheid era. A 1968–69 series between the pair in South Africa was cancelled due to the D'Oliveira affair, a controversy over whether or not the England selectors would pick Basil D'Oliveira, a mixed-race player of South African origin. A later tour of England in 1970 was called off after pressure from James Callaghan, the British Home Secreta