Cricket in the Falkland Islands is still very much in its infancy. For the ICC to grant funding to affiliate members, areas such as children's cricket, ladies cricket and regular coaching, have to be ongoing.

Here, they are ticking all these boxes. They still however rely heavily on decent cricketers coming into the country and staying for more than a couple of months. Sadly this is not always possible, for outside of tourism, short term work contracts are often the main reason that people come over to the Islands.

When players and coaches settle here however, it's important that as much cricketing knowledge, expertise and passion is passed on to fellow players and newcomers alike. Especially important, in my view, is that the young indigenous population of any cricket developing country gets an opportunity to learn how to play, appreciate and begin to love this great game; for that is the only way for the 'gospel' to spread.

My stay on the Falklands is coming to an end. I have had a great time and have hopefully passed on enough information to improve the skill sets of the local school kids, but also given their teachers some more tools to enable them to continue the playing of the game within the school curriculum.

The ladies and gentlemen of the Falklands Cricket Association have also embraced some new technical and tactical ideas and hopefully, over the coming months, they can put these into practice during their own training sessions and matches.

My thoughts now turn to mainland South America, and Chile. I fly out to Santiago on Saturday and I wish for two things on my arrival; (i) my luggage has made the journey with me this time ! and (ii) that the weather is a little more cricket friendly; i.e, not blowing a gale, snowing, sleeting, or raining; it's not asking too much … is it?

So as I wave a fond farewell to the Islands, with their dramatic landscapes, weather and recent military history, I leave in the knowledge that during the last two weeks I have coached one hundred and sixty seven cricketers.

I know this to be true, for in the never to be forgotten words of former BBC war correspondent; Brian Hanrahan: "I counted them all out and I counted them all in". This is Ian Butcher, for CricketEurope, the Falkland Islands.