Western Province cricket team

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Western Province is a professional cricket team from the Western Cape, South Africa. The captain is Kyle Verreynne, with Beuran Hendricks among the players. Corrie Van Zyl is the chief executive. The team was founded in 1864, and its home ground is Newlands in Cape Town, which seats about 22,500 fans.

Western Province has a long history in South African cricket. They played their first-class cricket in 1890/91 and have won many Currie Cup titles over the years (19 outright and 3 shared). In 2004, the team joined with Boland to form the Cape Cobras for the franchise era, winning several titles: 4 first-class, 2 outright and 2 shared One-Day Cup, and 2 T20 championships. In 2021/22, CSA restructured cricket again, and Western Province was re-formed as a standalone team, returning to its traditional name while the Cape Cobras branding was largely phased out.

Today, Western Province Men compete in the CSA 4-Day Domestic Series, the CSA One-Day Cup, and the CSA T20 Challenge. The Western Province Women’s team became a professional side in 2024, playing in the CSA Women’s One-Day Cup and CSA W Pro20.

Newlands is known as the Heart of Cricket and has hosted many legends, including Jacques Kallis, Vernon Philander, Herschelle Gibbs, Andrew Puttick, and JP Duminy. During the franchise era, the Cape Cobras used Boland Park as a shared venue with Newlands from 2002 to 2022. Cricket in South Africa began in the Cape with the Western Province Cricket Club, founded in 1864, and the Currie Cup has a long, storied history with Western Province among the most successful teams.