Montrose CC to represent WP at national Club Championship

Montrose Cricket ClubFile image: Montrose Cricket Club.

Montrose Cricket Club will represent Western Province at the inaugural Veterans Cricket Association of South Africa Club Championship.

The tournament will be played this month. It will be hosted in East London.

Montrose Cricket Club beat Claremont Cricket Club in the final of the 2021-22 Western Province Veterans Cricket Association league to reach this tournament.

Several former Proteas featured in the 2021-22 WPVCA league, including Victoria Cricket Club’s Ashwell Prince, Claremont Cricket Club’s Alan Dawson and Cape Town Cricket Club’s Louis Koen.

They VCASA Club Championship will also feature Border’s Bohemian Cricket Club of Border, KwaZulu-Natal’s Amanzimtoti Cricket Club, Northerns’ Police Cricket Club and Gauteng’s Old Edwardians Cricket Club.

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2022 VSCA Club Championship teams

  1. Amanzimtoti Cricket Club
  2. Bohemian Cricket Club
  3. Montrose Cricket Club
  4. Old Edwardians Cricket Club
  5. Police Cricket Club

Winners get Luxolo ‘Lux’ Qoboshiyana trophy

The five teams will compete for the Luxolo ‘Lux’ Qoboshiyana trophy.

“The late Qoboshiyana was born and raised in the East London, Bhisho and King William’s Town region, including its rural clusters. He was a father figure that spotted and carefully nurtured cricket talent,” read a statement from the Veterans Cricket Association of South Africa.

“The man from Mdingi, the same rural home as Makhaya Ntini, played a fatherly role for Proteas wicketkeeper-batsman Sinethemba Qeshile and other promising youngsters.

“He was a teacher by profession and also worked for an insurance company during his career, but his heart was always with the sport he played, cricket.

“He was involved in sports unity talks in 1991 after playing for Border’s non-racial provincial team during the segregated era.

“He followed the game closely, at its purest and innocent level at schools, tracking the most talented players that Border could offer.

“In return, the game took Qoboshiyana up the ranks in cricket administration, where he rose to become a Border Cricket and Warriors selector, and eventually for the Proteas and more recently the Proteas Veterans.”

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