André Odendaal (born 4 May 1954) is a South African historian and former first-class cricketer.
[2] Odendaal played for Cambridge University in 1980 and 1983, scoring 61, his only first-class fifty, on debut against Leicestershire.
[6] In 1984–85 Odendaal became the only white first-class player to play in the non-white South African first-class competition during the apartheid era,[7] appearing for the Transvaal team in 1984–85 and the Western Province team in 1985–86.
After the end of apartheid Odendaal served as CEO at Newlands Cricket Ground in Cape Town and CEO of the Cape Cobras and Western Province cricket teams for ten years.
[2] He was founding director of the Mayibuye Centre for History and Culture in 1991 and the Robben Island Museum in 1997.