Figure 1.--Here we have the 1982 school cricket team portrait from the Laerskool Wheatlands (Primary School Wheatlands) in Randfontein, near Johannesburg in 1982. |
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Cricket is one of several sports the British brought to South Africa in the 19th century. Cricket was being played infiormally (1820s). The South African cricket team is today called the Proteas, it was formerly the Springboks. They are administrated by Cricket South Africa. The initial domestic first class cricket match was the reported with the Currie Cup competition (1889). Transvaal who defeated Kimberley. in the same year, South Africa and England played at St George’s Park Cricket Ground in Port Elizabeth. The Currie Cup became the established national championship. Sir Donald Currie donated the Trophy as he did with Rugby. The name of the Curie Cip competition has changed to the Castle Cup (1996-97) and now the SuperSport series, South Africa’s primary domestic inter-provincial four-day cricket competition. Cricket was at first a game played by the English and it was the English and English schools that have dominated the history of South African cricket. One avid plsayer has published a book describing the black South Africans playing crcket. [Odendaal] He describes a cricketing culture among blacks that began with the establishment of the first black mission school (1850s). This led top cricket sides and clubs. And Afrikanbers also took to gamme. Here school cricket probably played an importsant role. South African cricket was suspend by the ICC from international cricket because of its government's policy of apartheid (1970). With the estanlish ment of democracy, the ICC reinstated South africa (1991). We do not know a great deal about school cricket in South Africa. We suspect it is strongest at private schools, but hopefully our South African leaders will be able to provide some derails.
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