The Club is pleased to announce that the professional for the 2008 season can now be named. He is Niel Bredenkamp, aged 20 years, from South Africa. Niel plays for North West and Vaal Reefs Cricket Club, and is a right hand bat and right arm fast medium bowler.

In First Class, he has scored 900 runs at an average of 42, and in List A, 302 runs at an average of 31. Niel is currently the highest run scorer in the SAA Three Day Challenge (2007/8) with 387 runs, and is the only batsman to achieve back-to-back centuries this season, in November in Namibia.