Cricket & Conquest: The History of South African Cricket Retold, 1795-1914

by André Odendaal, Krish Reddy, Christopher Merrett

467 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2016

About the author

André Odendaal is writer in residence and honorary professor in History and Heritage Studies at the University of the Western Cape. His dozen books include The Founders: The Origins of the African National Congress and the Struggle for Democracy (2012); Pitch Battles: Sport, Racism and Resistance (2020), co-authored with Peter Hain; and the jointly edited Robben Island Rainbow Dreams (2021) on the making of democratic South Africa’s first heritage institution.