Empire Cricket Booklet

List of illustrations

The grave of Reggie Schwarz at Etaples (Bern

The first known written reference to a cricket match played in South Africa (The National

ard Hall collection)

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Library, Pretoria)

Lovedale College Cricket Team, late nine teenth century (Odendaal, Story ofan African

The Wanderers Pavilion in the mid 1890s

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Game, 37)

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(Wanderers Club)

Nathaniel Cyril Umhalla, a leading figure in cricket over four decades (Odendaal, Story of

Lord Hawke's 1898/99 English side in action at Matjiesfontein 17 March 1899 (Dean Allen

an African Game, 28)

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and Logan family)

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Cricket played by black children near Aliwal North at the turn of the century (Odendaal,

A tea interval under the pines at Newlands in the 1890s (Western Province Cricket Union) Along with the British government and public, the satirical weekly, Punch, under- estimated Boer resistance in the guerilla

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Story ofan African Game, 60)

Isaiah Bud-Mbelle (Odendaal, Story ofan

African Game, 324)

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Western Province XVIII versus W.W. Read's English team, 1891(M. W. Luckin (ed.), The History ofSouth African Cricket, Johannes

phase of the South African war.

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Colonel Robert Baden-Powell referred to beleaguered Mafeking in cricket terms

burg, Hortor, 1915, 504)

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(unknown)

Walter Rubasana, the first president of the Border Native Cricket Union (Odendaal, Story ofan African Game, 54) Charles Finlason, South African cricketer and controversial journalist CTonty Winch

An African observer looks on between opposing captains, Percy Sherwell and Plum Warner (Wanderers Club) The deputation which protested before the British Parliament in 1909 against the new South African colour bar constitution (Andre Odendaal, The Story ofAn African Game, Cape

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collection)

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The 1888/89 English team (Wanderers Club)

The first South African team at Port Elizabeth

in 1888/89 (Gauteng Cricket Board)

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Town: David Philip, 2003, 83)

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