1. Introduction: an English game, a Samoan contest
2. Transcultural adoption in Samoa (and in sport)
3. From cricket to kirikiti
4. Colonial officials: play halted “in the interests of industry and progress”
5. Christian missionaries: “much that was distinctly heathenish”
6. Colonists, ‘afakasi and military men: sundries on ‘the Beach’
7. Navigating colonialism in three contexts: “cricket assumed a political importance”
8. Navigating New Zealand colonialism: “more interested in cricket than in Samoan politics”
9. Conclusion: sporting contest at the edges of empire