Empire Cricket Booklet

Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements

vii

Abbreviations

ix

List of illustrations

xi

Foreword Andre Odendaal

xv

More than a Game Bernard Hall, Richard Parry and JontyWinch

ONE

3

Black Cricketers, White Politicians and the Origins of Segregation at the Cape to 1894 Richard Parry Guardians of the Game: The Role of the Press in Popularising the 1888/89 Tour and Establishing the South African Cricket Association JontyWinch

TWO

19

THREE

43

'I Could a Tale Unfold': The Tragic Story of 'Old Caddy' and 'Krom' Hendricks JontyWinch Empire, Race and Indian Cricket in Natal, 1880-1914 Goolam Vahed and Vishnu Padayachee

FOUR

61

FIVE

81

A B. Tancred and his Brothers Bernard Tancred Hall

SIX

101

George Lohmann Keith Booth

SEVEN

123

Cricket's 'Laird': James Logan Dean Allen

EIGHT

139