A holistic story of South African cricket across time, space, identity, race and gender

摘要

If the history of South African cricket was to be written, told or retold I cannot think of a better threesome than Andre Odendaal, Krish Reddy and Christopher Merrett to undertake the task. They have each contributed hugely to other projects on the subject of South African cricket in the same spirit as can be found in this book, the second volume in what they expect to be a four-volume narrative. Odendaal is an historian, Reddy a former school principal and Merrett was a university librarian. Each of them brings unique skills, knowledge and experience as academics and cricket historians to this overall project. Among other books, Odendaal wrote the beautifully produced coffee table book The Story of an African Game: Black Cricketers and the Unmasking of One of Cricket’s Greatest Myths, 1850–2003 1 , Reddy co-authored Blacks in Whites: A Century of Cricket Struggles in KwaZulu-Natal 2 and Merrett wrote Caught Behind: Race and Politics in Springbok Cricket.