Dear Michael, as a paid subscriber you are forbidden from buying me extra coffees! Your monthly support is greatly appreciated - I'm just pleased you enjoyed a couple of weeks of Test match nostalgia to help get me through the ipl... thank you gain! :)
I first visited Newlands at the Western Province-Transvaal match at New Year 1971, and my first impression was how small the playing area was, compared with the spacious Police Ground in the then Salisbury. I sat under the planes, saw Ali Bacher complete a pair, but Transvaal managed to stave off possible defeat. Obviously I would scarcely recognize the place nowadays. No doubt even Table Mountain will have been renovated.
“ Hope regular readers enjoyed my diversion down memory-lane for the last few weeks. I fear not…haven’t had a coffee for a month!”
Thoroughly enjoyed your Pat Simmo piece. Well worth a coffee or two but the link seems missing.
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Dear Michael, as a paid subscriber you are forbidden from buying me extra coffees! Your monthly support is greatly appreciated - I'm just pleased you enjoyed a couple of weeks of Test match nostalgia to help get me through the ipl... thank you gain! :)
I first visited Newlands at the Western Province-Transvaal match at New Year 1971, and my first impression was how small the playing area was, compared with the spacious Police Ground in the then Salisbury. I sat under the planes, saw Ali Bacher complete a pair, but Transvaal managed to stave off possible defeat. Obviously I would scarcely recognize the place nowadays. No doubt even Table Mountain will have been renovated.