Cricket and Conquest: The History of South African Cricket Retold, Volume 1, 1795–1914
  • 2016/467 pages
  • Distributed for Best Red, an imprint of HSRC Press
  • Includes extensive photos

Cricket and Conquest:

The History of South African Cricket Retold, Volume 1, 1795–1914

André Odendaal, Krish Reddy, Christopher Merrett, and Jonty Winch
Paperback: $39.95
ISBN: 978-1-928246-13-8
The first of its kind for any sport in South Africa: a cricket love story of epic dimensions, full of sometimes shocking details. Cricket and Conquest fundamentally revises long-established foundational narratives of early South African cricket,  reaching beyond whites-only mainstream histories to integrate at every stage and in every region the experiences of black, as well as women, players.

In this book and its sequels, the authors reveal how racism came to be built into the very fabric of South African cricket's culture and traditions, and how the sport was tied to the broader historical processes that shaped the country.
André Odendaal is honorary professor in history and heritage studies at the University of the Western Cape. Krish Reddy is author of The Other Side: A Miscellany of Black Cricket in Natal and coauthor of Blacks in Whites: A Century of Cricket Struggles in KwaZulu-Natal. Christopher Merrett is the editor of Natalia and manages the publication program of the Natal Society Foundation. Previously, he served for three decades as an academic librarian and then campus administrator at the University of KwaZulu Natal. Jonty Winch has written extensively on sports and politics; his most recent book is England's Youngest Captain: The Life and Times of Monty Bowden and Two South African Journalists.