Omar Henry
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Omar Henry is a former cricket
er who played in three Tests
and three One Day Internationals for South Africa. He is notable for being the first non-white player of the modern era, (after Charles Llewellyn
in 1912) to play cricket for South Africa. He played extensively in Scotland.
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
er who played in three Tests
Test cricket
Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. Test matches are played between national representative teams with "Test status", as determined by the International Cricket Council , with four innings played between two teams of 11 players over a period of up to a maximum five days...
and three One Day Internationals for South Africa. He is notable for being the first non-white player of the modern era, (after Charles Llewellyn
Charles Llewellyn
Charles Bennett Llewellyn was the first non-white South African Test cricketer.Born out of wedlock in Pietermaritzburg to an English father and a black Saint Helenan mother, the dark-eyed and dark-skinned Llewellyn had an underprivileged upbringing in Natal being considered of mixed blood...
in 1912) to play cricket for South Africa. He played extensively in Scotland.