The two nights there cemented strong friendships among players from both sets of
teams. Again the touring party shared in dance at the school Assembly and
participated in “bush golf” down at the howick falls before showing great courage in
two very hard matches, the girls only going down in the last 10 minutes as fatigue hit
while the boys could not make their pressure count.
After that it was back to the cost, moving into the beach flat lets on the South Coast at
Indhlovu where the pupils were able to relax together and prepare for the final two
matches against two strange teams from very large school. Only the final match was
against a single – sex school and the elite teams performed gallantly in them.
The differences in standards of umpiring in Zimbabwe and South Africa was evident.
While the Zimbabwean umpire had to show yellow cards regularly to the local, the
elite players showed great restraint and control.