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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

James Logan and fellow industrialists photographed on board RMS Norman prior to Mark Twain's departure in July 1896 (South African National Library, Cape Town, Photo collection, PHC 20953) The Matjiesfontein Mounted Rifles in front of the new Hotel Milner c1900 (Dean Allen and Logan family) R. M. Poore - cricketer and army officer (C.B. Fry (ed.), The Book ofCricket: A Gallery of Famous Players, London: George Newnes, 1899, and Jeremy Lonsdale collection) South African team which played against England in the First Test at Port Elizabeth in 1895/96 (Jonty Winch collection) James Logan and family c1899 (Dean Allen and Logan family)

C. B. 'Buck' Llewellyn (Cricket: A Weekly

Record ofthe Game, 30 July 1908)

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Major Rowland Bowen, the controversial founder and editor of Cricket Quarterly (David Frith collection) Jimmy Sinclair, 'one of the first men who made South African cricket famous' (Cricket: A Weekly Record ofthe Game, 15 March 1913, 85) The South African team for the First Test against Lord Hawke's touring side in 1898/99 boume Cricket Ground during the Fourth Test in February 1911 (Gauteng Cricket Board) 212 Graffiti on the wall at Accrington Cricket Club (Photograph, C. Haworth, Accrington Observer and Times, 16 July 1912, provided by Nigel Stockley) 215 201 202 (Brian Bassano collection) 205 Dave Nourse pictured batting at the Mel-

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Diyatalawa camp (Jeremy Haskins collection) 182

The Colts from Colombo and the Boer prisoners of war who played a two-day match in July 1901 (Luckin, History ofSouth

Lord Harris's Consolidated Goldfields and Aubrey Faulkner's Corner House cricket teams in 1904 (Gauteng Cricket Board)

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African Cricket, 804)

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Reggie Schwarz (David Frith collection)

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Pieter H. de Villiers (Western Province Cricket Union) Tommy Hilder with his brother on commando (Girly Elliott collection)

Aubrey Faulkner (Denzil Batchelor, The Book of Cricket, London: Collins, 1952, 186)

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Gordon White (Brian Bassano collection)

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A. E. Vogler (Brian Bassano collection)

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George Sennett who kept wicket for the

Orange Free State (Jeremy Haskins collection) 186

A South African player demonstrates the

googly (Cricket South Africa)

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The match programme and menu (Jeremy

Haskins collection)

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Shopkeepers endeavour to keep the public updated with scores in the Tests of 1909/10

A cricket match in progress at Diyatalawa

(Cricket South Africa)

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camp (Jeremy Haskins collection)

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C. B. Fry faces J. J. Kotze at Lord's (Brian

A recent photograph of the Nondescripts field

Bassano collection)

(W. G. Schulze collection)

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The Australian batsman, J. R. M. 'Sunny Jim'

Boer cricket teams at Diyatalawa (Jeremy

Mackay (David Frith collection)

Haskins collection)

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An unidentified Boer cricket team in Ceylon

Jimmy Sinclair and Aubrey Faulkner walk

(Jeremy Haskins collection)

out to bat (David Frith collection)

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