Cape Cobras
| Nashua Mobile Cape Cobras | |||
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| Coach: |  Richard Pybus |
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| Captain: | Andrew Puttick |
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| Colours: | Blue Yellow | ||
| Founded: | 2005 | ||
| Home ground: | Newlands Cricket Ground | ||
| Capacity: | 25,000 | ||
| Official website: | Cape Cobras | ||
The Nashua Mobile Cape Cobras often shortened to Cape Cobras or Cobras is the name used since the 2005–06 season by the combined Western Province and Boland first class cricket teams in South African domestic cricket. The joint Western Province and Boland team was named Western Province Boland for the 2004–05 season. The Cobras home venues are Newlands Cricket Ground, Cape Town and Boland Bank Park, Paarl.The Cobras used to be called Western Province until Boland Cricket and Western Province merged in 2005
The Cobras play in the SuperSport Series, MTN40 and Standard Bank Twenty20 competitions.
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[edit] Honours
- SuperSport Series (2) - 2009–10, 2010–11 ; shared (0) -
- MTN Championship (1) - 2006–07
- Pro20 Series (2) - 2008–09, 2010–2011"
[edit] Anecdotal
In 2008 the Cape Cobras theme song 'Cobras' was a result of the competition 'Nashua Cape Cobras: Lyrics with Venom', which was won by Al Paton and Lesley Paton, whose lyrics were set to music by producer Gabi Le Roux , with executive producer Clive Ridgeway.
[edit] Squad
Players with international caps are listed in bold.
| No. | Name | Nat | Birth date | Batting Style | Bowling Style | Notes |
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| Batsmen | ||||||
| 3 | Owais Shah |  |
22 October 1978 | Right-handed | Right-arm off break | Overseas Player |
| 11 | Herschelle Gibbs | |
23 February 1974 | Right-handed | Right-arm off break | |
| 15 | Graeme Smith | |
1 February 1981 | Left-handed | Right-arm off break | |
| 21 | JP Duminy | |
14 April 1984 | Left-handed | Right-arm off break | |
| 28 | Justin Ontong | |
4 January 1980 | Right-handed | Right-arm off break | |
| 74 | Stiaan van Zyl | |
19 September 1987 | Left-handed | Right-arm medium | |
| 88 | Richard Levi | |
14 January 1988 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium | |
| ?? | Yaseen Vallie | |
30 September 1989 | Right-handed | Right-arm off break | |
| All-rounders | ||||||
| 5 | Robin Peterson | |
4 August 1979 | Left-handed | Slow left-arm orthodox | |
| 34 | Justin Kemp | |
3 December 1979 | Right-handed | medium-fast | |
| 9 | Rory Kleinveldt | |
15 March 1983 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium-fast | |
| 24 | Vernon Philander | |
24 June 1985 | Right-handed | Right-arm fast | |
| Wicket-keepers | ||||||
| 4 | Andrew Puttick | |
11 December 1980 | Left-handed | — | |
| 44 | Dane Vilas | |
10 June 1985 | Right-handed | — | |
| Bowlers | ||||||
| 23 | Monde Zondeki | |
25 July 1982 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium-fast | |
| 67 | Charl Langeveldt | |
17 December 1974 | Right-handed | Right-arm fast-medium | |
| 8 | Dale Steyn | |
27 June 1983 | Right-handed | Right-arm fast | |
| 86 | Francois Plaatjies | |
26 August 1986 | Right-handed | Right-arm fast | |
| 10 | Johann Louw | |
12 April 1979 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium-fast | |
| ?? | Beuran Hendricks | |
8 June 1990 | Left-handed | Left-arm fast-medium | |
Source(s): Cricinfo , Cape Cobras Squad
[edit] Noted players
- Paul Adams
- Jean Paul Duminy
- Herschelle Gibbs
- Jacques Kallis
- Ashwell Prince
- Andrew Puttick
- Graeme Smith
- Charl Willoughby
- Monde Zondeki
- Mark Boucher
- Gary Kirsten
[edit] External sources
- Nashua Cape Cobras from cricket.co.za, official site of the United Cricket Board of South Africa
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[edit] References
- South African Cricket Annual – various editions
- Wisden Cricketers' Almanack – various editions
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