Cricket Profile – Champions and Courage – James Albanie
We start our Cricket Profiles of Champions with James Albanie, warm up coach for the Over 40s Cricket World Cup winning team, as well as SA Over 50s team player. This is James' story as is, unedited and in his own words...
"My story is the story of a rural boy growing up in the dusty streets of Touwsriver in an extended family with strong religious values. Sport in Touwsriver was one of the means to escape the hardship and boredom in this Little Karoo town. Many young kids and I were very privilege to have amazing teachers like Clyde Sass Moos Nicholas, Willem Hartnick and many others. They open the world of sport through books to us. We would play cricket but talk of the great West Indian teams who were our heroes.
