Cricket and Society in South Africa, 1910–1971

Chapter 1 Landscape, Players and Politics

Chapter 2 Eclipse of the Summerbok: Percy Sherwell, Paul Roos and the Competition for a National Game for South Africa

Chapter 3 ‘Not the Same Thing as on Grass’: Political Conservatism, Cultural Pessimism, Vested Interests and Technical Inhibition—Factors in South African Cricket’s Commitment to Matting, 1876–1935

Chapter 4 African Cricket on the Rand: Piet Gwele, Frank Roro and the Shaping of a Community

Chapter 5 Rhodes, Cricket and the Scholarship Legacy: A Southern African Perspective, 1903–1971

Chapter 6 India in the Imagination of South African Indian Cricket, 1910–1971

Chapter 7 Diffusion and Depiction: How Afrikaners Came to Play Cricket in Twentieth-Century South Africa

Chapter 8 The Education of Bruce Mitchell and the ‘Union Babies’: History, Accumulation and the Path to Triumph at Lord’s, 1924–1935

Chapter 9 ‘Rejects of the Sporting Whites of the Continent’: African Cricket in Rhodesia

Chapter 10 Should the West Indies Have Toured South Africa in 1959? C. L. R. James Versus Learie Constantine

Chapter 11 The D’Oliveira Affair: The End of an Era

Chapter 12 ‘Who Are We … to Tell the South Africans How to Run Their Country?’ The Women’s Cricket Association and the Aftermath of the D’Oliveira Affair, 1968/69

Chapter 13 Newlands ‘Walk-Off’: Politics and Players