Western Province B completed a five wicket victory over Border B to complete the double, having already claimed the UCB Bowl 3-Day competition earlier in the week.

Border never really got going in their innings after being sent in to bat in cool conditions with rain always threatening, and despite chipping away at the WP batting order, were always on the back foot in the field.

Gareth Berg bowled Smith in the third over to set the visitors back, but Laden Gamiet and Burton de Wett kept the scoreboard ticking along nicely with a 54 run partnership off 72 balls. After Gamiet fell to Mark de Stadler, the aggressive Wayne Wiblin immediately got on with the boundary hitting. Their partnership of 40 off 51 balls raised the 100 in the 22nd over, at which point they were well placed to post a commanding score.

Berg then returned, bowling de Wett with the first ball of his second spell. Paul Harris joined the attack, strangling the batsmen from the start. Wiblin managed just two singles off the last 16 balls he faced before lashing out at Ian Trott, and the middle order subsided to 140 for 6 in the 36th over.

The experienced duo of Ian Mitchell and Piet Botha batted out the overs, their unbeaten partnership contributing 52 off 59 balls, and Border had posted a respectable but not overawing target of 4.3 to the over. Harris had the best return, taking a single wicket but conceding less than three an over, despite being hit for two successive boundaries by Sodumo in his fifth over.

Heavy rain during the lunch break threatened to force the match into a replay, but the rain was short lived and the innings began just ten minutes late with no reduction of overs. Rashaad Magiet made a purposeful start, scoring 12 off his own bat in the first two overs. Botha tightened up, but his opening partner Maketa was rested after conceding 13 in his opening spell of three overs.

Botha was rewarded with Magiet's wicket in the 11th over, but Ryan Maron and JP Duminy broke the back of the task with a partnership of 79 off 116 balls. Maron could have been dismissed several times, but luck was on his side. Their partnership was broken in comical circumstances as he and Maron were involved in a massive misunderstanding. Maron rode his luck, hitting out whenever possible to record his 50 off 87 balls, and went on to reach 60 before he eventually succeeded in getting a faint edge to Justin Kreusch.

The home side then had a flutter, Jonathan Trott and Wesley Euley following Maron in quick succession. Jonathan McLean steadied the ship, scoring at more than a run a ball and lofting two sixes. He almost ran himself out with the scores tied, but survived to hit the winning run with 12 balls to spare to bring down the curtain on yet another extremely successful season for the Western Province Bowl squad.

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