Impalas (cricket team)

The Impalas cricket team represented minor provinces in South Africa's domestic Benson and Hedges Night Series Trophy List A cricket competition for ten seasons between 1984-85 and 1993-94.

The Impalas initially represented the Border, Boland, Orange Free State and Griqualand West province teams. These teams played in the Castle Bowl South Africa's secondary first-class competition.^[1]

Over the ten seasons the team usually finished in lowly positions in the competition table. However, in the 1987–88, 1988–89 and 1991–92 seasons, the Impalas reached the tournament semi-finals.^{[citation needed]}

Border, Boland and Orange Free State all eventually provided their own teams for the competition and there was no need for the Impalas for the 1994–95 season.^{[citation needed]}

In 2011–12 a new team was added to the MiWay T20 Challenge competition called Impi, to give opportunities to players who miss out on franchise selection. It competed only in the 2011-12 List A competition, going without a victory in 12 matches.^[2]^[3]

Notable Impalas players

Honours

Benson & Hedges Night Series (0) – Semi-finals 1987–88, 1988–89 and 1991–92
MiWay T20 Challenge (0) – Last i.e. seventh in 2011–12

Venues

At first Impalas played all their matches away. Their home venues have included:

St George's Park, Port Elizabeth (1985)
Harmony Ground, Virginia (1986–87)
Danie Craven Stadium, Stellenbosch (1987–88, 1989–90)
Victoria Ground, King William's Town (1988–89)
PAM Brink Stadium, Springs (1992–93, 1993–94)

External links

All List A matches played by Impalas Archived 2018-04-29 at the Wayback Machine at CricketArchive

References

^ Benson and Hedges Cricket Year Fourth Edition - 1984-85 page 188
^ New franchise in SA domestic T20 tournament – ESPN Cricinfo
^ Wisden 2013, p. 1104.

Sources

Benson and Hedges Cricket Year – various editions
Wisden Cricketers' Almanack – various editions

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