The First South African side to play in the sub-continent: Boer Prisoners of War in 1901 (Part 1 of 2) by Arunabha Sengupta (Cricket Country), 12 October 2015
… Cornelius Otto, S. P. Joseph (scorer – Colts), Alexus Smuts, Tommy Kelaart, RC Dunn, EA Joseph, AT Pollocks, J … of the team. Furthermore, there were men like Alexus Smuts and Coert van Zyl, who hailed from parts of Transvaal … Boer camp and travel to Colombo for the game. De Villiers, Smuts, Kotze, John O’Reilly, Piet Steyn, Sidney Tennant and …