Eastern Province (Cricketteam)

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Eastern Province
founded 1893
Hometown Port Elizabeth
Home stadium St George's Park
First class championships 2 + 1 shared
One Day Cup victories 5
As of October 11, 2017

Eastern Province is a South African cricket team based in Bloemfontein that competed in professional national competitions until October 2004. From then on they were merged with Border part of the Warriors and continued to play under the name Eastern Province in the second-rate South African competitions. The team won the South African first class competition, the Currie Cup , three times.

history

At the beginning of the 20th century, cricket only slowly gained acceptance in the region, also because agricultural regions initially refused to organize cricket centrally. For a long time the team was not represented in the top group. 1960/61 succeeded with a second place in the Currie Cup, the first foray into the upper group. The first successes in one-day cricket began in the 1970s. The first win came at the Gillette Cup in 1971/72 , which could be repeated in 1975/76 . The second peak came at the end of the 1980s. The Nissan Shield was won in 1986/87 and the Currie Cup for the first time in 1988/89 . In the following season , the shared win of the championship succeeded. The last major success was achieved in 1991/92 when both the Currie Cup and the One-Day Cup could be won. In the 2003/04 season the provincial teams were merged and Border formed the Warriors together with Griqualand West. In the following years the team managed to win a first-class competition of the now semi-professional provincial teams.

Stages

Since its inception, the team has mainly used St George's Park in Port Elizabeth as their home stadium.

successes

First class cricket

Winning the Currie Cup (2 + 1 split): 1988/89 , 1989/90 (divided), 1991-92

Winning the CSA Provincial Three-Day Competition (1): 2009/10

One-day cricket

Winning the One-Day Cup (1): 1991/92

Winning the Gillette Cup and successors (4): 1971/72 , 1975/76 , 1986/87 , 1989/90

Win the CSA Provincial One-Day Competition (0): -

Twenty20 cricket

Winning the CSA Provincial T20 (0): -

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ John Nauright: Sports around the World . ABC-CLIO, LLC, Santa Barbara 2012, ISBN 978-1-59884-300-2 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  2. ↑ Collin Bryen & Andrew Samson: A mixed bag ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved October 11, 2017.