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57 The cemetery contains 68 South African graves: D. Gill and J. Putkowski, The British Base Camp at Etaples, 1914-1918 (Etaples: Musee Quentovic, 2008); A. Grundlingh, Fighting Their Own War: South African Blacks and the First World War (New History of Southern Africa Series, Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1987). 58 In a recent review article, Bruce Murray noted a new historiography of South African cricket is emerging through writers 'systematically recapturing the history of black cricket' and in doing so'placing the development of the game in political context': B. K. Murray,'A New History of South African Cricket', Journal of Southern African Studies, 31, 4 (December 2005), 875-876. 1 See in particular A. Odendaal, The Story of an African Game: Black Cricketers and the Unmasking of One of Cricket's Greatest Myths, South Africa, 1850-2003 (Cape Town: David Philip, 2003), and A. Odendaal, 'South Africa's Black Victorians', in J. A. Mangan (ed.), British Culture at Home and Abroad, 1700-1914 (London: Frank Cass, 1988). Several other books have also been produced as part of this process. See the review article by Bruce Murray, entitled'A New History of South African Cricket', Journal of Southern African Studies, 31, 4 (2005), 875-881. 2 J. Winch, Cricket in Southern Africa (Rosettenville: Windsor Publishers, 1997), 17. 3 See Chapter 8 below by Jeremy Lonsdale,'R. M. Poore: Sporting Prowess and Imperial Controversy'. 4 S. Trapido, 'The Friends of the Natives', in S. Marks and A. Atmore (eds), Economy and Society in Pre Industrial South Africa (London: Longman, 1980), 251. 5 C. Cox, The Cricketing Record of Major Warton's Tour, 1888-9 (Port Elizabeth: Advertiser, 1889). 6 Trapido,'Friends of the Natives', 249. 7 J. F. Munro, Africa in the International Economy (London: J. M. Dent and Sons, 1976), 57. 8 C. C. Saunders,'The Annexation of the Transkeian Territories', Archives Year Book for South African History (Pretoria: Government Printer, 1978), 4. 9 A. Odendaal, Black Protest Politics in South Africa to 1912 (Totowa: Barnes and Noble, 1984), 4. 10 R. Parry, 'In a Sense Citizens, but Not Altogether Citizens: Rhodes, Race and the Ideology of

30 Davenport, Modern History, 219. 31 Pakenham,'The Anglo-BoerWar, 1899-1902', in Cameron, Illustrated History, 217. 32 Cricket, 30 May 1901, 162. 33 John Ferris claimed 5/26 and Charlie Turner 5/36 when England were bowled out for 62 at Lord's in July 1888. Australia won the Test by 61 runs. 34 W. Hillcourt, Baden-Powell: The Two Lives of a Hero (London: Heinemann, 1964), 44. 35 Pakenham, 'Anglo-BoerWar',216. 36 Ibid. 37 B. Spies,'Reconstruction and Unification, 1902 1910', in Cameron, Illustrated History, 220. 38 Pakenham, Scramblefor Africa, 667. 39 Spies, 'Reconstruction and Unification', 221-222. 40 Davenport, Modern History, 229. 41 Pakenham, Scramble for Africa, 665; Davenport, Modern History, 241. 42 Spies, 'Reconstruction and Unification', 225. 43 F.Welsh, A History of South Africa (London: Harper Collins, 2000), 364. 44 Cricket, 8 September 1904, 388. 45 I.AR. Peebles,'Dawn of the Modern Age, 1900-1914', in E.W. Swanton (ed.), Barclays World of Cricket: The Gamefrom A to Z (London: Collins, 1980), 22. 46 Warner, M.C.C. in South Africa, 68. 47 Peebles,'Dawn of the Modern Age', 22. 48 See R.W. J. Opperman and L. Laubscher, Africa's First Olympians: The Story of the Olympic Movement in South Africa (Johannesburg: SANOC, 1987). 49 Spies, 'Reconstruction and Unification', 226. 50 Pakenham, Scramble for Africa, 665. 51 Davenport, Modern History, 251. 52 Ibid., 667. 53 Birley, Social History of English Cricket, 272. 54 A. Pallant, A Sporting Century, 1863-1963: Athletics; Rugby; Cricket (Callington: Penwell, 1997), 93, 97; Daily Telegraph, 20 October 2007. 55 Birley, Social History of English Cricket, 190. 56 T. Reddick, 'Aubrey Faulkner', in B. Crowley, Cricket's Exiles (Don Nelson: Cape Town, 1983), 17.

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