01 March 2025

Blast from a Cape Town cricket past

Cape Minstrels / Kaapse Klopse Performing at Newlands Cricket Stadium 

Cape Minstrels / Kaapse Klopse Performing at Newlands Cricket Stadium
Cape Minstrels / Kaapse Klopse Performing at Newlands Cricket Stadium

Blast from the past… seeing that SA is currently playing in the ICC Champions Trophy 2025, Pakistan.
This image was captured 10 years ago during the Festival of Cricket (2015) at Newlands, Cape Town during the night innings of a T20 Day / Night match. Handheld with no flash.

It is a definite reminder of the colourful vibrancy and cultural roots of our Cape Town people. This Kaapse Klopse / Cape Minstrels group was winners of their 2015 Carnival competition in some capacity. They were invited by WPC / CSA to attend the Festival of Cricket soon afterwards to entertain the faithful Newlands crowd (at one of the oldest sporting stadiums in South Africa).

What a privilege to be part of this colourful event and to experience Cape Town’s multi-cultural freedom and pride first-hand… I was the local social events photographer for the WPC Marketing team (as official WPC Internet Marketing / Social Media consultant) during the 2013 – 2015 local / international cricket seasons (Newlands / Paarl).

During this period I met and worked with many of my schoolboy South African cricket hero’s, coaches and at the time, SuperSport cricket administrators / cricket writers.

It was a surreal feeling being there to also photograph and watch many thrilling games of local / international cricket from a totally different perspective.

Image Copyright: Vernon Chalmers for WPC

With Canon EOS 700D / Canon EF-S 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM lens. An effective combination for images for both the WPC and SuperSport websites. 

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Cape Minstrels / Kaapse Klopse Performing at Newlands Cricket Stadium
Cape Minstrels / Kaapse Klopse Performing at Newlands Cricket Stadium (Afternoon)