Windhoek - day 2

It was an early start this morning, and breakfast met the very high standards which we have witnessed at the hotel. Visakan in particular enjoyed the grub, demolishing a number of eggs with ease. Breakfast was followed by training, between 10 and 12. The fitness training was not to the satisfaction of some, namely Simon MacLeod, however it did not last long as the sun rapidly sapped our energy. We then moved onto a unique net session in grass nets, and managed to watch the Namibian National U19 squad training. The nets allowed us to get a taste of conditions in the middle, and there was a marked improvement in the quality of cricket from the evening before. The entire squad is optimistic about tomorrow's game, and we hope to come to terms with the entirely different conditions here in the middle where it really counts. Three matches in three days will be a hard ask, especially as the day time temperature today was 36 and the local pundits are telling us that the forecast for Sunday, when we are moving 200km south of here to play on a farmstead deep in the desert, is for it to be even hotter with the temperature in the low 40s. We hope to post the scores of the game against the Namibian Cricket Academy Side tomorrow evening - who knows if JGB's case turns up with his camera we might even have a couple of photos.