OF FATHERS, SONS AND TIMELESS TESTS, wicket tales from Kingsmead

208pp., b/w & colour illus., paperback, Durban, 2024

A hundred years of cricket at the Kingsmead cricket stadium in Durban and the history of Black cricket under apartheid.

Ashwin Desai is Professor of Sociology at the University of Johannesburg. His books include Reverse Sweep: a story of South African cricket since apartheid, Wentworth, the beautiful game and the making of place and the edited collection, The Race to Transform: sport in post-apartheid South Africa.