The Gentlemen’s Cup

Quincy Beukes
The Gentlemen’s Cup is an annual competition between Windhoek Afrikaans Privaatskool (WAP) and Windhoek Gymnasium (WHK GYM) cricket teams. Last year WHK GYM hosted this tournament at the United cricket field but this year the tournament was hosted by WAP. The two day tournament took place at Wanderers cricket fields from the 19th to the 20th October.

The opening ceremony began with a process by all twelve teams around the field followed by and opening speech delivered by the WAP principal which was then preceded by the singing of the national anthem. Shortly after the singing of the national anthem the first princesses of WAP and WHK GYM served champagne to both principals and first team captains. The evening then kicked off with a friendly game between the WAP and WHK GYM teachers.

On Thursday the tournament was started by the u/9B teams. WAP’s u/9B team won the game and were leading the tournament 1-0. The second game was between WAP u/9A vs WHK GYM u/9A; it was an intense game but WHK GYM won the game and pulled the tournament score 1-1. The third game was between the u/11As and WAP’s u/11A team won the game thus making the tournament score the score 2-1. The fourth game was played between WAP u/13B and WHK GYM u/13B which was again won by WAP. With another victory for WAP the score was 3-1. The last game was between the two u/13A teams. WHK GYM won that game and earned themselves another point. The day ended with a tournament score of 3 for WAP and 2 for WHK GYM.

On Friday WHK GYM was behind by one point and with three games left (one game counting 1 point and two games counting 2 points). The u/11B team began by losing against WAP’s under 11B team making the score 2-4. All pressure was on WHK GYM’s u/15A team to win because if they lost, they would lose the cup. Luckily they performed on the day and obliterated WAP’s under 15’s team. After that confessing game by WHK GYM the score was 4-4 with the deciding game to be played between the fist-teams. With WHK GYM having the stronger team they dominated WAP and won the game and the cup. So with a final score of 6-4, WHK GYM brought back the cup.