André Odendaal
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| Full name | André Odendaal | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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4 May 1954 Queenstown, Cape Province, South Africa | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting style | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling style | Right-arm off-spin | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1980, 1983 | Cambridge University | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1981-82 | Boland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1984-85 | Transvaal SACB team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1985-86 | Western Province SACB team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Source: Cricket Archive, 5 September 2014 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
André Odendaal (born 4 May 1954, Queenstown, Cape Province, South Africa) is a South African historian and former first-class cricketer.
Education
Odendaal attended Queen's College in Queenstown, Stellenbosch University, and St John's College, Cambridge.[1]
Cricket career
He played for Cambridge University in 1980 and 1983, scoring 61, his only first-class fifty, on debut against Leicestershire.[2] He played nine matches in 1980, scoring 325 runs at an average of 23.21.[3] He played in the annual match against Oxford University, but rain washed out the match before Cambridge could bat. He also played two List A matches for Combined Universities. On his debut he scored 74 against Warwickshire and won the Man of the match award.[4]
He played ten matches for Boland in 1980-81 and 1981-82, but with only moderate personal success, although he played in the team that won the SAB Bowl in 1981-82.[5]
In 1984-85 he became the only white first-class player to play in the non-white South African first-class competition during the apartheid era,[6] appearing for the Transvaal team in 1984-85 and the Western Province team in 1985-86.
Academic and writing career
He has taught history at the University of South Africa and the University of the Western Cape. His books include:
- God's Forgotten Cricketers: Profiles of Leading South African Players (1976) (ed)
- Cricket in Isolation: The Politics of Race and Cricket in South Africa (1977)
- Vukani Bantu!: The Beginnings of Black Protest Politics in South Africa (1984)
- Beyond the Barricades: Popular Resistance in South Africa in the 1980's (1989) (contributed main essay)
- A Trumpet from the Housetops: The Selected Writings of Lionel Forman (1992) (ed, with Sadie Forman)
- Liberation Chabalala: The World of Alex la Guma (1993) (ed, with Roger Field)
- Beyond the Tryline: Rugby and South African Society (1995) (with Albert Grundlingh and Burridge Spies)
- The Story of an African Game: Black Cricketers and the Unmasking of One of South Africa's Greatest Myths, 1850-2003 (2003)
- The Blue Book: A History of Western Province Cricket 1890-2011 (2012) (with Krish Reddy and Andrew Samson)
- The Founders: The Origins of the African National Congress and the Struggle for Democracy (2012)