Caught Behind: Race and Politics in Springbok Cricket

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Wits University Press, 2004 - Social Science - 256 pages
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South Africaâ??s participation in international cricket has been bedeviled by racism and the political intervention of governments virtually from the beginning. This book is a compulsively readable account of the events and political machinations that led to South Africaâ??s cricket isolation in the apartheid era and its ultimate readmission.

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Contents

The Segregation Era 191048
29
Apartheid Cricket
49
Cricket and the Sports Boycott
63
Copyright

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African Cricket Association apartheid April Australia Basil D'Oliveira Billy Griffith black cricket Board of Control bowler Bradman British Brutus cancellation Cape Town captain Cheetham coloured cricket in South cricket tour Cricket Union Currie Cup D'Oliveira Affair delegation Dennis Brutus Douglas-Home Gleneagles Agreement Griffith Hassan Howa Hendricks included international cricket Johannesburg Koornhof Llewellyn London Lord's MCC Committee MCC team MCC tour meeting multi-racial Natal non-racial Odendaal Olympic organised Pamensky Peter Hain played players political Prime Minister Race racial Rand Dailv Mail represented rugby SACA SACA minutes SACA's SACBOC SACU SANROC segregation selection selectors September South Africa South African cricket South African sport South African team South African tour sports boycott sports policy Springbok team to tour Test cricket Test match tour of England tour of South tour South Africa tournament Transvaal Varachia Vorster West Indies Western Province Cricket white cricket white South African wickets Zealand

About the author (2004)

Bruce Murray is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and president of the Croxley Wits Cricket Club. Christopher Merrett is Director of Administration at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Pietermaritzburg. He has written extensively on the theme of race, politics and sport in South Africa.

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TitleCaught Behind: Race and Politics in Springbok Cricket
AuthorsBruce K. Murray, Christopher Merrett
Editionillustrated
PublisherWits University Press, 2004
Original fromthe University of Michigan
Digitized9 Oct 2008
ISBN1869140591, 9781869140595
Length256 pages
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Social Science / Discrimination & Race Relations
  
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