Divided Country explains how segregation and apartheid became
entrenched in a unique way in cricket in South Africa between 1915
and the 1950s. While the rest of the cricket world increasingly
rubbed out old dividing lines, South Africa reinforced them until
seven different South Africas existed at the same time in cricket.
Each of them claimed the title `South Africa' and `national'. Each
ran leagues and provincial competitions and chose national teams.
This book continues the task started by Cricket and Conquest
(2017), which re-wrote the foundational narratives of cricket in
southern Africa between 1795 and 1914. One reviewer noted it was
`simply the finest book ever written about sport in South Africa'.
Another that it had the effect of `bowling over prevailing
histories, de-colonising existing narratives of the game ... *and+
throwing all that came before into a spin' so that `what was will
never be the same'. Divided Country similarly attempts to paint an
entirely new picture of cricket in South Africa during a crucial
and complex period. It completely inverts previous whites-only
general histories of cricket, showing that the game has an
infinitely richer history than has been recorded to date. Without
knowing how apartheid in cricket unfolded one cannot even begin to
understand the journey the country has travelled since the 1950s,
and how, slowly, painstakingly, the cricket unity we take for
granted today was struggled for and constructed. This will be the
explosive theme of Volume 3 of this series.
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