Table of Contents

The colonial and apartheid eras, 1890-1991. The era of unity and democracy, 1991-2011. Consolidated Western Province and Cape Cobras statistics, 1890-2011.

About the Author

Andre Odendaal is Chief Executive of the Western Province Cricket Association and Honorary Professor in History and Heritage Studies at the University of the Western Cape. Krish Reddy has painstakingly recovered much of the lost statistical records of black and non-racial cricket in Natal and South Africa. He is the author of The Other Side: A miscellany of black cricket in Natal, and co-author of Blacks in Whites: A century of cricket struggles in KwaZulu- Natal. The UK-based Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians chose him as their Statistician of the Year in 2007. Andrew Samson is a statistician with a particular interest in cricket. He has contributed to the Mutual & Federal SA Cricket Annual and Wisden Cricketers' Almanack since 1994. He was official statistician for the ICC World Cup in 2003, ICC World T20 2007, ICC World Cup Qualifier 2009 and ICC Champions Trophy 2009.