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The Salem Cricket Ground claims to be the oldest in South Africa. The first recorded match to be played there, according to club historian Sheila Long, was between colonial settlers in 1844. (Photo: Ihsaan Haffejee)
ASSEGAI RIVER

It’s just not cricket

Near Makhanda in the Eastern Cape in the village of Salem is a cricket pitch that is said to be the oldest in the country. Watered by blood and trauma, rolled with frontier…

  • Niren Tolsi
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