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Cricket in South Africa — The Cape Colony Grounds and the Western Province Club, 1850s
Cape Town CC and garrison sides
1854-01-01
Cricket had been played in the Cape Colony since at least 1808, but the 1850s saw the first organised club competition beyond the garrison, with civilian clubs establishing grounds in Cape Town and the surrounding farming districts. The Western Province Cricket Club, formed in 1864 from this earlier infrastructure, would produce South Africa's first Test players — but the competitive club culture of the 1850s was its direct antecedent.
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