scoring 268 in the fourth Test at the MCG, his highest first-class score to date. He featured in partnerships of 203 with Hughes for the third wicket and 185 with Greg Matthews for the seventh wicket, both record stands for Australia against Pakistan. His 268 was, at the time, the highest score by an Australian against Pakistan and the seventh highest score by an Australian in any Test match. A contemporary report said "that Yallop should be the celebrity of the Australian team demonstrates again cricket's delightful uncertainty." It quoted Arthur Morris who called him "a beautiful player of spin and medium pace" and Lindsay Hassett who said "I can't think of any player who has been treated worse." He would only play two more Test matches. A score of 30 in the fifth Test brought Yallop's series aggregate to 554 runs at an average of 92.33, comfortably the best result of any Australian batsman. His summer's total was 1,132 first-class runs at 113.20. After being selected for the 1983–84 tour of the West Indies, Yallop injured the medial ligaments in his left knee whilst fielding during the first ODI and missed the rest of tour, being replaced by Dean Jones. He was part of the Australian ODI tour of India later in 1984 and played in the first Test against the touring West Indies before being sidelined for much of the Australian summer following surgery on his injured knee. South African rebel tours On his return to domestic cricket, scores of 58 and 125 against New South Wales led to him being discussed as a possible selection for the 1985 Ashes, although ultimately he was not selected for the tour. Believing that his time in the Australian side was at an end, Yallop joined the rebel Australian team led by Kim Hughes which played in apartheid era South Africa. Yallop was Hughes' vice captain in the 1985–86 team. "A number of us were given the word that the selectors didn't see us as having any future as Test players," said Yallop. "We were told – quietly, of course – that our futures weren't exactly rosy. So when the approach came, we were interested." South Africa was subject to a sporting boycott due to the apartheid regime and, along with the other players who joined the team, Yallop was banned for two years from Australian first-class cricket, and for three