WestminsterResearch http://www.westminster.ac.uk/westminsterresearch Beyond Kolpak: EU Law’s unforeseen contribution to the movement of African Cricketers Greenfield, S., Osborn, G. and Rossouw, J. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in International Journal of the History of Sport, DOI:10.1080/09523367.2017.1320987. The final definitive version is available online: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09523367.2017.1320987 © 2017 Taylor & Francis The WestminsterResearch online digital archive at the University of Westminster aims to make the research output of the University available to a wider audience. Copyright and Moral Rights remain with the authors and/or copyright owners. Whilst further distribution of specific materials from within this archive is forbidden, you may freely distribute the URL of WestminsterResearch: ((http://westminsterresearch.wmin.ac.uk/). In case of abuse or copyright appearing without permission e-mail
[email protected] Beyond Kolpak: EU Law’s unforeseen contribution to the movement of African Cricketers Introduction Cricket historically consisted at an international level of ‘Test Matches’ played between selected Commonwealth Countries. The first recognised Test Match, between sides from Australia and England, took place in 1877 though there is record of a match between the USA and Canada in 1844. Test Matches are now spread over 5 days with each side having two innings with three results possible, a win for either side or a draw. There can be between 1 and 7 matches in one ‘Test Series’ between the same countries. Matches were not always time limited and the last ‘timeless Test’ took place between South Africa and England in Durban in 1939.