2. See for example Cashman, Sport and the National Imagination Gemmell, ‘The Springboks are not a Test Side’ Murray and Vahed, Empire and Cricket Nauright and Black, ‘“Hitting Them Where it Hurts’” Pearson, ‘Heads in the Sand’ and Ryan, ‘Anthropological Football’.ģ. Cashman unveils the need for further exploration of sporting contacts between the two countries during the twentieth century.