André Odendaal

André Odendaal
Personal information
Full name André Odendaal
Born (1954-05-04) 4 May 1954
Queenstown, Cape Province, South Africa
Batting style Right-handed
Bowling style Right-arm off-spin
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1980, 1983 Cambridge University
1981-82 Boland
1984-85 Transvaal SACB team
1985-86 Western Province SACB team
Career statistics
Competition First-class List A
Matches 26 5
Runs scored 778 167
Batting average 18.97 33.40
100s/50s 0/1 0/1
Top score 61 74
Balls bowled 72
Wickets 0
Bowling average
5 wickets in innings
10 wickets in match N/A
Best bowling
Catches/stumpings 23/ 1/
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] where he gained a PhD in History.[2]

Cricket career

He played for Cambridge University in 1980 and 1983, scoring 61, his only first-class fifty, on debut against Leicestershire.[3] He played nine matches in 1980, scoring 325 runs at an average of 23.21.[4] 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.[5]

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.[6]

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,[7] appearing for the Transvaal team in 1984-85 and the Western Province team in 1985-86.

After the end of apartheid he served as CEO at Newlands Cricket Ground in Cape Town and CEO of the Cape Cobras and Western Province cricket teams for ten years.[2] He chaired the UCBSA's Transformation Monitoring Committee from 1998 to 2002. In 2002 he received the President's Award for Sport (Silver Class) for his contribution to bringing about change in sport.[2]

Academic and writing career

He has taught History at the University of South Africa and at the University of the Western Cape, where he is an Honorary Professor in History and Heritage Studies.[2]

His books include:

References

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