Wednesday 19th December. v Western Province CC

Have had no internet access since Tuesday so a brief resume of the final stages of the tour for anyone who might read it.

WPCC has one of the most beautiful club grounds in the country. Very near to Newlands it has an even better outlook on the mountain as there is no brewery or railway line to break the view. The facilities are second to none with cricket hockey football a gym and many other facilities. The members are also life members of Wetern Priovinnce at Newlands and have right of access to matches at Newlands like MCC members at Lord's altho unlike MCC members who actually own Lord's and therefore have free access every day of the year they have to pay the gate fee!!

Bancroft's batted first and did so very effectively - Visakan Balakumar posted an excellent 76 with Rahul Patel scoring 27 and Nigel Jacob 26 in support. 256 all out in 48 overs on one of the hottest days of the trip including Namibia was a good effort. We bowled WPCC out for 139, Akash 2-19, Abhi 4 -16 ( another excvellent spell ) Nigel 2 - 7 and Visakan 2 - 17. An excellnt 5th victory