Cricket & Conquest The History of South African Cricket Retold 1795-1914

by Odendaal, André; Merrett, Christopher; Reddy, Krish; Winch, Jonty

• ISBN13: 9781928246138
• ISBN10: 1928246133
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2017-07-01
• Publisher: HSRC Press

Summary

The first of its kind for any sport in South Africa: a cricket love story of epic dimensions with details which will blow readers away. Cricket and Conquest goes back to the beginnings 221 years ago and fundamentally revises long-established foundational narratives of early South African cricket. It reaches beyond old whites-only mainstream histories to integrate at every stage and in every region the experiences of black and women cricketers.

Author Biography

Andre Odendaal is a historian, writer, former first-class cricketer, non-racial sports activist and CEO of the Cape Cobras and famous Newlands Cricket Ground. Christopher Merrett was born in Britain, grew up in the Bahamas and has lived in South Africa since 1975. A member of the path-breaking Aurora Cricket Club from 1979, he umpired nearly 100 league and inter-district matches, and two SACB first-class matches in 1982. Krish Reddy has painstakingly recovered much of the lost statistical records of black and non-racial cricket in Natal and South Africa, details of which were published regularly in the Mutual and Federal South African Cricket Annual from 1996 to 2004. Jonty Winch grew up in Zimbabwe and has worked in education, journalism and photography in southern Africa and Britain.