CRICKET AND CAPE SOCIETY

265pp., hardback, Routledge Research in Sports History, Routledge, Oxford, 2026

ISBN: 9781041133957

A case study of St Augustine Cricket Club in Cape Town. It examines the relationship between race, class, gender, national belonging and cricket in South Africa, as well as how the game reflected and resisted broader imperial and post-Apartheid ideologies.

Francois Johannes Cleophas is Associate Professor in Sport History at Stellenbosch University.