A lasting relationship was forged in the 11 days that the cricket club, Birmingham Bulls, spent in Cape Town on their inaugural tour of South Africa. They were hosted by the community cricket club Fish Rite Hanover Park and the touring side consisted of a mixture of u.11 and u.15 boys. “Myself and Sat Matharu met the Fish Rite Hanover Park management and players when they were on tour to the UK in August of 2019 – itself a monumental achievement for a club that has seen its fair share of struggles with limited facilities, and located in an area where deprivation and poverty is higher than most other districts of Cape Town,” says Samir Rauf, manager of the Birmingham Bulls. Their first tour game was against Harborne Cricket Club where most of the Birmingham Bulls play from. The relationship developed and we were swiftly invited to tour Cape Town with Hanover Park management, reassuring them that they would host us with Capetonian hospitality.

Source: News 24 March 10, 2020 03:56 UTC