Western Province cricket team

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Western Province

Personnel
Captain	Wayne Parnell
Coach	Salieg Nackerdien
Bowling coach	Rory Kleinveldt
Chief executive	Michael Canterbury
Team information
Founded	October 1864
Home ground	Newlands, Cape Town
Capacity	22,500
History
First-class debut	Eastern Province in 1890/91
First-Class Competition wins	Western Province:18 Outright and 3 Shared Cape Cobras:4 Outright
One-Day Cup wins	Western Province:5 Cape Cobras:2 Outright and 2 Shared
T20 Cup wins	Cape Cobras:2
Official website	Official website
First-class T20

The Six Gun Grill Western Province is a first-class cricket team from the Western Cape province within the domestic cricket structure of South Africa. A Western Province team has played top-class cricket since the 1890s, including the franchise era team of Cape Cobras that existed between 2005 and 2021. The current Western Province team was re-formed for the 2021/22 season after the previous franchise structure was disbanded following CSA domestic reorganisation. Whereas many teams opted to keep their former franchise brands, Cape Cobras elected to return to their traditional name.

Western Province is one of South Africa's most successful cricket teams, winning the Currie Cup 18 times, with 3 shared wins from 1892 to 2004. Four wins occurred between 1892 and 1899, with 14 others coming at regular intervals throughout the 20th and early 21st century. In the Franchise Era, Cape Cobras claimed 4 total wins. Western Province won 5 one-day cup titles between 1981 and 2004, with a further 3 outright and 2 shared as Cape Cobras. In the domestic T20 competition, Western Province/Cape Cobras won twice between 2003 and 2022.

Traditionally, the team's home ground is Newlands in Cape Town. Under Cape Cobras this was expanded to incorporate Boland Park in Paarl. Western Province currently compete in the CSA 4-Day Domestic Series, CSA One-Day Cup and the CSA T20 Challenge.