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Swallows and Hawke is a captivating account of 80 years of compelling cricket. From South Africa's stunning first ever Test win by one wicket in 1907 to Syd Barnes and Herby Taylor locked in iconic combat in 1914, to Cliff Gladwin's scrambled last-ball victory in 1949, all the standout moments are here. On the pitch, the cricketers faced extreme heat and dust, unplayable wickets and a wily and resilient opposition. Off the pitch they inspected mining compounds, were terrified by Zulu dancers and found themselves in jail or chased by rhinos. Over 15 tours the emissaries of Empire bestrode the pavilions of power with mine-owners and politicians, from Kruger to Verwoerd. They turned a blind eye to oppression and resistance and colluded with a new national mythology of white supremacy featuring ox-wagons and Blood River. The cricketing dramas take place within the perennial African struggles over land, labour and freedom as the cricketing relationship between MCC and South Africa forges the bonds of Empire.

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Publié par	Pitch Publishing Ltd
Date de parution	11 juillet 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781801502856
Langue	English
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First published by Pitch Publishing, 2021
Pitch Publishing
A2 Yeoman Gate
Yeoman Way
Durrington
BN13 3QZ
www.pitchpublishing.co.uk
Richard Parry and Andr Odendaal, 2022
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Contents
Foreword by Peter Hain
Foreword by Stephen Chalke
Acknowledgements
Map: South Africa
Introduction: Summer Swallows
PART 1: OPENINGS
Map: Tour 1: 1889-89
1. Adventures: Aubrey Smith 1888/89
2. Speculations: W.W. Read 1891/92
3. Politics: Lord Hawke 1895/96
4. Clouds: Lord Hawke 1898/99
PART 2: EMPIRE AND UNION
5. Googlies: Plum Warner 1905/06
6. Union and Lobster: Henry Leveson Gower 1909/10
7. Barnes and Taylor: Johnny Douglas 1913/14
PART 3: PITCH AND TURN
8. Strike! Frank Mann 1922/23
9. Dominium: Rony Stanyforth 1927/28
10. Confusion: Percy Chapman 1930/31
11. Waiting for Godot: Wally Hammond 1938/39
PART 4: EYES OPENING, EYES CLOSED
12. Nazis and Nationalists: George Mann 1948/49
13. Defiance: Peter May 1956/57
14. A Woman s Place: Helen Sharpe 1960/61
15. Last Rites: Mike Smith 1964/65
Epilogue: The Sixteenth Tour: 1968/69
Sources and Bibliography
Photos
To Krom Hendricks, Frank Roro, Basil D Oliveira, and all those thousands of black players including Ebony Rainford Brent and Azeem Rafiq who fought racism and the exclusionist cricket establishments which denied them the opportunity to fully achieve their potential in the game they loved. May this book support the eradication of discrimination on grounds of race, gender and class wherever cricket is played.
Foreword by Peter Hain
SWALLOWS RE-AWAKENS my earliest cricketing memories hearing of Compton s legendary triple hundred and watching the 1964/65 tourists at Berea Park with my brother Tom, and it reminds me of how the South African Security Police confiscated my pencil cricket scoresheets suspecting that Sobers, Hall and May were coded revolutionaries.
The intense on-field struggle between white South Africa and their oldest sporting rivals reinforced the soft power of empire. Racial segregation and inequality were the bedrock of South African sport and society; white advantage depended on excluding the black majority. After Black Lives Matter, it is self-evident that what happens on the pitch reflects what happens beyond it. Swallows explains how politics shaped sport and how sport and particularly these tours reinforced the power of the racist state, and introduces black and women s cricket and the history of resistance to the apartheid state. Fifteen cricket tours, echoed to the thump, not just of leather on willow, but to the jackhammers wielded by millions of black mineworkers. Gold enriched British mining magnates while empire supported South Africa s evolution from segregation to apartheid, ignoring the oppression of the black population. Eventually, MCC foundered between its loyal player, the black South African Basil D Oliveira, and his persecutor, the white South African government. Swallows provides an essential window into today s struggles over race and power including Yorkshire s disgraceful treatment of Azeem Rafiq.
Lord Peter Hain spent his childhood in South Africa and is a former British anti-apartheid leader and Cabinet minister. He is co-author with Andr Odendaal of Pitch Battles, sport, racism and resistance .
Foreword by Stephen Chalke
I HAVE LEARNED so much reading this book - about the development of cricket in South Africa and about the forces that led to the creation of the apartheid system. The authors ambitious approach, viewing it all through the prism of 15 English cricket tours, weaves the two strands together to telling effect. In South Africa the sport and the racial politics can never be wholly separated.
The early South African performances were dreadful, but inside 20 years their cricket had taken a giant leap forward. The tale of their first victory over England well, you would be pushed to make up the thrilling climax. I was on the edge of my chair reading it. And, as I found out as I read on, it was far from the only game with such a gripping ending.
Cricket, however, is only one part of this story. The authors describe in horrific detail how South Africa turned itself into a brutal police state, enforcing rigid laws of racial separation, and how the English tourists were for the most part cocooned in a bubble of privilege.
The book ends, as the 80-year history of these tours ends, with the D Oliveira Affair, and here the superb research skills of the authors have come up with a real plum, unearthing minutes of Lord s meetings that were thought to have been destroyed. As with so much in this most original book, the authors have added to our understanding - and not just of cricket s history.
Stephen Chalke is the author of Summer s Crown: The Story of Cricket s County Championship and founding publisher of Fairfield Books.
Acknowledgements
WHEN WE write history, even if we re not actually standing on the shoulders of giants, we gain inspiration and influence from many directions. This is particularly true when the narrative veers off the well-trodden path and the echo of leather on willow meets the creaking of wagon wheels and the cacophony of jackhammers deep in the earth.
Our efforts to reconstruct the impact and significance of the MCC s relationship with this corner of the empire are indebted to all those historians who seek to transform South Africa s understanding of its past, built on structural racism and extreme economic inequality, into the foundation for a new inclusive and equal society.
Swallows and Hawke is a book about cricket, reliving the compelling nature of an on-field rivalry over 80 years. The duel between England and South Africa may not have been as noisy as the Ashes, but it was fought with no less intensity or ferocity. Each of the seven Test series in South Africa between 1922 and 1965 went down to the wire; every Test counted, there were no dead rubbers. Swallows explores the visceral application of skill and power, of temperament and intelligence, and of strategy and decision-making in the unfolding of matches.
It describes how, off the field, the experience of the cricketers lifted the veil on the political economy of the golden heart of empire. They played against whites only teams before segregated crowds and watched watched dances performed by black workers secured in mining compounds. Lord Harris and other grandees were the masters of both the players and the miners, directing simultaneously the operations of MCC and the South African mining industry.
It is a truism that politics and capital controlled cricket but to challenge the barriers of race, class and gender we need to understand who decides who plays, under what conditions, and in what circumstances. In the tradition of Rowland Bowen, Mike Marquese, Ramachandra Guha and Derek Birley, Swallows and Hawke is intended to point towards new possibilities for researching and writing post-colonial histories of English cricket.
The significance of historical transformation in South Africa s road to democracy has inspired the building of a solid foundation of new writing on South African cricket and on its history. Andr Odendaal s work, especially the multi-volume History of South African Cricket Retold, with Krish Reddy, Christopher Merrett and Jonty Winch, lifts the lid on apartheid s cricketing past and provides the evidence, analysis and statistics for an understanding of South Africa s real story.
A complementary series of narratives has interwoven class, race and gender with political process and South African cricket. This book builds on essays contained in Empire and Cricket, 1884-1914 , and Cricket and Society, 1914-1971 , presided over by Bruce Murray, who sadly passed away in 2019. They were shaped by South African and British-based writers including Goolam Vahed, Ashwin Desai, Richard Parry, Jonty Winch, Dale Slater, Bernard Hall, Geoff Levett, Keith Booth, Albert Grundlingh, Heinrich Schultze, Rafaelle Nicholson, Patrick Ferriday and Jon Gemmill.
Swallows and Hawke concludes with a new analysis of the Basil D Oliveira crisis, which ends the sequence of English cricket tours to South Africa - if not the close relationship between the English cricketing establishment and the apartheid regime. Peter Oborne s empathetic approach to D Oliveira and forensic analysis of the machinations in Pretoria and at Lord s over the tour rejuvenated a perennial issue and additional important contributions have been made by Bruce Murray, Rob Steen, Mike Brearley, Stephen Chalke and Peter Hain, who has described his own role in the successful Stop the Seventy Tour direct action protests, which dramatically ruptured the age-old colonial partnership. The current focus on racism in cricket, within the broader focus of the Black Lives Matter campaign against racism in sport, has demonstrated the overwhelming significance of this issue and the distance still to go to achieve resolution.
This book argues that the ideological, political and economic partnership between Lord Harris and MCC shared a mantra of mines, e