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April Edition 2018 “Leading Through Cricketing Excellence”
THE LATEST INSIGHTS INTO THE
HAPPENINGS AND ADVENTURES
AT KWAZULU-NATAL
CRICKET INLAND.
This edition will seek to
encompass the activities of
KwaZulu-Natal Cricket: Inland
over the past season from the
“ Competition at club level has improved
tremendously as well as the overall
various departments. administration which has seen the leagues
the most competitive in a long while.
KwaZulu-Natal Cricket Inland have
had a season to cherish, a season
which has seen us become African
Champions, a season where we have Schools cricket has also been strides have been taken to ensure
had changes off the field as well as on the rise with the schools T20 that our coaches are being qualified
on the field. Competition having Hilton College and taught various new innovations.
represent the Dolphins at the In conclusion, this edition seeks to
Major changes in management from National Finals which saw us go through every department with a
the introduction to our new CEO compete in the finals. brief report from each coordinator.
Mr. Heinrich Strydom to our
Amateur Manager in Jason Competition at club level has Coaching Manager
Sathiaseelan to myself taking on the improved tremendously as well as - Yashveer Singh
new role as Coaching Manager. the overall administration which
has seen the leagues the most (Pictured below is our hardworking
A lot may be said about our season, competitive in a long while. and dedicated staff at KwaZulu-
with the ups and downs, with the Natal Cricket Inland)
retirement of many senior players Mini-Cricket has been thriving and
within the Men’s Senior Team, the moving forward in strides as mass
rush of youth within the Women’s participation programs have been
Squad and the introduction of the the order of the day. With regards to
Framework Coaches. coaching education, major leaps and
Amateur Manager Address – Jason Sathiaseelan. Coaching Manager Address – Yashveer Singh. KZN Inland Men’s Head Coach Address – Shane Burger. Mini-Cricket – Mercia Baaitjies. Schools Cricket – Warren Naidoo. Club Cricket – Muhammad Jooma. Umpiring and Scoring – Muhammad Jooma. Upcoming Events. Contact Details.
AMATEUR MANAGER
ADDRESS
JASON SATHIASEELAN
Amateur Manager
Varsity are the KZN Inland premier
league champions and our
promotion league winners are
Umtshezi. Well done to both teams.
Although facilities have been a
struggle, club cricket in Inland is
on the rise and for the new season
we will be implementing more
programs to enhance this crucial
aspect of the game. The women’s
club cricket league was a huge
success and we hope to continue
building on these foundations.
The 2017/2018 season has been The Coaches Forums held at the
concluded and to celebrate the Pietermaritzburg Oval was well
season, we will be hosting our first attended and we must thank some
Annual Awards Banquet in April. of the excellent guests we had in
The season started with us being Kyle Nipper, Doug Watson, Dale
crowned Africa T20 Champions and Benkenstein, David Pryke, Anton
the senior provincial team under Ferreira, Shane Burger and Lawrence
the guidance of coach Shane Burger Mahatlane. These sessions will
has grown in leaps and bounds. The certainly help grow our coaches
team finished second in the CSA under the hardworking Coaching
1-Day competition and third in the Manager, Yashveer Singh.
Sunfoil 3-Day competition. We can
be proud of their achievements. Finally, to my staff, well done on
an excellent season. Your passion,
Congratulations to Hilton College on desire and commitment to the goals
reaching the final of the Coca Cola set have resulted in a successful
T20 schools final. The lads played season for KZN Inland. Let’s use the
some fantastic cricket during this off season to plan and prepare for
tournament. Our Hubs program has another enthralling season.
done exceptionally well and have
reached all targets set. This program Yours in cricket – Jason
will continue to assist our pipeline. Sathiaseelan.
COACHING MANAGER
ADDRESS
had to be put into place to ensure The leadership of Shane Burger has
that their roles and responsibilities proven his pedigree and quality, we
were reached. The planning and wish him well in his endeavors with
engaging is indeed a difficult task as South Africa A in the winter.
scheduling becomes an issue with
the many clashes involved. We have In terms of Coaching Education,
tried many methods of engaging I believe that we have done a
with our schools and we do believe tremendous job in trying to address
that we are reaching solutions for what was not done in the past in
the start of the new season. terms of coaching course, refresher
courses, forums and newsletters.
Besides our framework coaches To date, we have dispersed 5
working with the Provincial Age Newsletters, conducted 6 Courses,
Group Teams, our HUB Coaches have including a refresher course and
been hard at work in the townships, conducted 6 coaches’ forums. We
namely Imbali and Sweetwaters, our now find ourselves with a proper
2 identified HUBS. It must be known Coaches Database which I have been
that whilst identifying players in the using extensively throughout the
YASHVEER SINGH HUB, one of the HUBS focus if for season. I will be updating this before
Coaching Manager
mass participation and thereafter the start of next season.
working with the elite of the players
the coaches identify. I am pleased A massive thank you to all schools,
The 2017/2018 season has been one to say that the HUB coaches have clubs and individuals whom have
that has been filled with many highs done a fair job this season producing contributed to the development of
and a few lows. A major low to our 9 Provincial Players and 9 Regional coaches within the KwaZulu-Natal
season was the loss of our resident Players. Inland Region, your commitment
grounds man, Mr. Ram Maharaj, his has shown great improvement in our
departure left us at the beginning of With regards to our Men’s 1st Class cricket all-round as we have had an
the season which made it even more Team, coach Shane Burger has been improved season both on and off the
difficult to deal with. Our well wishes a man on a mission. With our senior field. We look to grow as a Union and
are forever with his family and we squad losing so many senior players with that grow those around us, let
hope that he rests in peace. to retirement, his young squad went us continue to support one another
on to achieve the unthinkable, in and ensure that we become the best
On the cricket front, I had taken up true ‘underdog’ manner, we have at what we do.
the position of Coaching Manager lifted the Africa Cup Trophy, a
in Mid-September when Desigan victory which has seen the squad #LetsGoTheInlandBlues
Reddy had moved back down take massive shape. The 1st class
to KwaZulu-Natal Coastal. The season began shaky, as our home Yours in Cricket - Yashveer Singh
challenge was daunting; however, record came into question, however,
I believe we have grown in massive as we reached the back end of the
leaps. With the introduction of the tournament, we had seen ourselves
Framework Coaches, a new system competing for all trophies on offer.
HEAD COACH’S
ADDRESS
We had a 7-week break before 50-over -
our regular season started. Our Leading run scorer – Ruhan Pretorius
first game against Coastals (derby (340 runs @ average of 34.00)
game) was lost the 3-day game Leading wicket taker – Gareth Dukes
but we bounced back and won (12 wickets @ average of 16.91)
with a bonus point in the 50 over
game on the Sunday. We struggled Dolphins representation
to gain momentum in the 3-day (Inland players) -
competition but were also unlucky Sarel Erwee, Khaya Zondo, Athi
when we had a whole day rained Maposa, Morne van Wyk, Kerwin
out against Northerns needing one Mungroo, Dane Vilas and Mthokozisi
wicket and their lead was 69 runs. Shezi
We also went off for bad light
versus North West requiring 53
runs for victory with 5 wickets in
hand, on another occasion we
enforced the follow on versus
SHANE BURGER Boland and couldn’t manage to
Inland Men’s Head Coach
finish them off on day 3 when
normally a team in that position
The 2017/18 season could not have might of.
got off to a better start when the
team won the inaugural T20 African In saying all this and not taking
Cup. Our qualifying weekend was our opportunities, we turned our
hosted by Border and was played at season around when we won 3
Buffalo Park, East London. We would games in a row against Border,
need to beat Zimbabwe, Boland and Namibia and Free State all by
Border if we wished to qualify for an innings margin in the 3-day
finals weekend. We beat Zimbabwe competition, an incredible feat
in the first game but were rained out to achieve and one that rarely
against Boland. On the Sunday we happens. The 50 over competition Another superb season has come to
beat Border convincingly to qualify also started gathering momentum an end and I would like to take this
for the finals weekend hosted by after the loss to Gauteng which opportunity to thank all the staff,
Northern Cape in Kimberley. would ultimately halt us from players, administrators, ground staff,
qualifying for a final. parents, supporters, umpires and
The draw determined that we scorers for all the support and hard
would play Gauteng in the Semi Needing to win our last 3-day game work over the season, without any of
Finals where we managed to beat versus Easterns to go past Namibia you achieving what we have would
them convincingly and met Free on the log and qualify for a final be virtually impossible. May we look
State in the final. We lost the final we were met with torrential rain forward to the 2018/19 season. All the
to Northerns in 2015/16 season in Benoni and only managed to best until we meet again!
and were determined to go one play the last day, we unfortunately
better this time round, this we did couldn’t force a result and finished
and managed to dominate every 3rd in our group. We finished 2nd in
opposition in our path to win the our group in the 50 over competition
cup for the first time since its start 3 behind Gauteng.
seasons ago.
Special performances from Sarel Outstanding achievers for
Erwee who was the tournaments the season:
leading run scorer with 231 runs
a competition record, Nduduzo 3-day -
Mfoza was joint leading wicket taker Leading run scorer – Grant Roelofsen
on 6 wickets and Kyle Nipper and (781 runs @ average of 65.08)
Grant Roelofsen also made telling Leading wicket taker – Graham
contributions. Hume (40 wickets @ average of 14.27)
INLAND MINI-CRICKET
COORDINATOR
The KFC program had a very good We are planning do run lots of
season If I can call it that, we have coaching clinics and coaching
recruited more than 46 schools educational programs during the
and added coaches and players to cricket off-season, too empower
the program. We had successful coaches and make sure we produce
mini cricket coaching courses in all quality players. It has been a busy
regions and hoping that coaches but very fruitful year and we can only
now will go out and coach. improve on it. KZN Inland has a vast
region and we hoping to get to more
We also had very successful schools during our off-season to
provincial events Provincial Seminar make sure we grow the base of mini
more than hundred coaches attend, cricket to give coaches the luxury of
and more than a thousand kids picking and choosing amongst mini
attended the festival. I am really cricket players that can now move
pleased with the results I’ve got from onto hardball.
the program. The mini cricket is one
of the hardest programs to do, but From the bottom of my heart I would
with the support of my colleagues like to thank the entire Inland Staff
MERCIA BAAITJIES and management it Is just so much and the regional coaches for their
Inland Mini-Cricket Coordinator
easier to get desired results. hard work and dedication.
KZN SCHOOLS CRICKET
YOUTH COORDINATOR
This season saw lots of highs for this tournament was our annual
KZNIC as numerous boys achieved franchise final where we saw Hilton
high accolades just to name a few, taking on Clifton College. The game
Fraser Jones representing South proved to be an electrifying one
Africa U19 at the World Cup which with all aspects of cricket bring
was held in New Zealand earlier performed, Hilton executed their
this year Mondli Khumalo also skills better on the day and came out
represented South Africa U19 in the victorious.
home series. It is great to see the
development and quality of players Hilton then went on to play in the
which schools from KZN Inland Coca-Cola National T20 Franchise
produce. We thank the schools Schools Tournament which was held
that they have quality coaches in in Pretoria. The boys from Inland put
place for nurturing the progress and on superb performances and showed
development of our young stars to great skill execution and maturity
perform at optimum levels. only losing one game taking second
place in the country.
Schools T20 competition
WARREN NAIDOO This year’s edition of the Coke T20 Schools winter league.
KZN Schools Cricket Youth Coordinator
saw some entertaining and mouth- Plans are being put in place to run
watering matches. Our provincial a school’s winter league which will
final saw Michaelhouse taking on be ran in the off-season. This will
Hilton College which saw Hilton be league will allow schools to play
come out tops. The next stage of more cricket and develop skills
COCA-COLA SCHOOLS T20
WINNERS – HILTON COLLEGE
KZN SCHOOLS CRICKET
CLUBS AND FACILITIES
COORDINATOR
booked their place in the CSA T20 It has been a massive learning curve
Community Cup. Congratulations and this season has been a genuine
to Robbie Coutts and his team on success. The Premier League 50 Over
this achievement, you have done competition was tightly contested
everyone proud! and came down to the second to last
weekend of the league in which the
These positive results were taken rain played a part and unfortunately
into the 50 over and 35 over leagues the last two weeks were hampered
respectively. These longer formats by rain but that did not put a
certainly came with challenges dampener on what was a wonderful
not only for teams but from an season. The Premier League 50 Over
administration side as well with Winners was Varsity CC whom were
facilities. In Inland facilities is our unbeaten the entire 50 Over Premier
biggest challenge but a challenge League Competition,
we collectively managed to get
through. In trying to accommodate Varsity Cricket Club will now go
all games at adequate venues was no head to head with Crusaders CC
easy task but we managed to fit all from Durban to see who will be
MUHAMMAD JOOMA fixtures in every weekend. representing our franchise at the
KZN Schools Cricket Clubs and Facilities Coordinator
CSA Club Champs later in April.
Once the longer format began, KZN Inland Wishes Varsity CC all
The Kwa-Zulu Natal Cricket: Inland we certainly did not forget about the very best in their final fixture,
Club Cricket has been a thrilling and our greater Inland Club Cricket everyone in our club cricket circuit
exciting one this past season. The Community. With one of our main is behind you. Varsity took the
2017/2018 season has certainly been goals was to facilitate Club Cricket cup in three of the four leagues in
one of the best seasons I have been in our Northern Natal region on a Maritzburg, that being in addition to
a part of. Coming from the umpiring more consistent basis and begin a the Premier League was The Division
background in Inland to be a part of women’s league. All 3 of which was 1 (50 Over) league and Division 3
the Kwa-Zulu Natal family full time a success. One of the greatest assets (35 Over) leagues. The Saturday PM
has certainly been a dream come to club cricket are our administrators League, known to many as the ‘Old
true. and congratulations must go out Boys’ league was another tight one
to all Sub-Union Presidents and and the crowned winners were
The Inland club cricket began administrators for fueling the Maritzburg CC.
with fantastic T20’s taking place in burning desire into their area for
Pietermaritzburg in all divisions from people to play club cricket. With this The 2018/2019 Season will begin in
The Premier League to the Division 3. the revival of cricket in Ladysmith September 2018. Again, kicking off
There were tightly contested fixtures began. The passion shown from with the T20’s for teams from the
and some thrilling wins on the other Northern Natal can be seen by the Premier league fighting for a spot to
end. The T20 leagues ended with an commitment of the Newcastle CC be in the CSA Community Cup. There
exciting weekend of Finals that took side coming every weekend to play are many new ideas breeding in the
place at the iconic Pietermaritzburg in Pietermaritzburg, well done to pipeline and will be broadcast to all
Oval. Some teams got to play on this everyone that kept the team strong during the off-season.
magnificent ground for the first time. every weekend.
The division winners were as follows: In closing, we faced challenges and
The promotional league was a overcame them with adversity and
Division 3 – Varsity CC, Division 2 – new venture undertaken by us and determination, we have a long road
Cosmos CC this proved to be a major success, to becoming one of the best club
players within the various sub-union cricket leagues in the South Africa
Division 1 – Standard CC, Premier club cricket teams vying for higher and this challenge is a scary and
League – Standard CC honors. Umtshezi, who are based in exciting one at the same time and
Estcourt came out on top and will I look forward to be a part of the
Standard CC did Kwa-Zulu Natal: be taking part in the Promotion/ journey with all of you whom are
Inland proud by beating Pinetown Relegation play-off in a chance to passionate about growing the game.
CC in the Franchise T20 finals that play in the Kwa-Zulu Natal Inland Together we will achieve the goals
took place at the oval and thus Premier League next season. we set out in KwaZulu-Natal Inland.
LEAGUE LOGS
PREMIER LEAGUE - 50 OVERS LOG
POS TEAM
NRR
PEN
TOT
NR
RR
BP
TD
W
D
P
L
1 Varsity CC 1st 18 14 15 0 0 3 0 0 4.98 2.93 79
2 Standard Cricket Club 1st 18 12 13 2 0 3 0 0 5.07 2.83 70
3 Zingari CC 1st 18 12 13 3 0 2 0 0 4.7 1.71 68
4 MCC Cricket Club 1st 18 11 11 5 0 2 0 0 4.76 1.98 59
5 Lancashire CC 1st 18 5 6 10 0 2 0 0 2.79 -0.71 33
6 Newcastle Cricket Club 1st 18 5 5 10 0 3 0 0 2.74 -1.12 31
7 Cosmos Cricket Club 1st 18 3 5 10 0 3 0 0 2.43 -1.36 29
8 Masibemunye Cricket Club 18 4 4 11 0 3 0 0 2.61 -1.42 26
9 Greytown CC 1st 18 1 2 12 0 4 0 0 2.11 -2.04 17
10 Young Natalians 18 3 3 14 0 1 0 0 2.09 -2.48 17
PROMOTION LEAGUE - 50 OVERS LOG
POS TEAM
NRR
PEN
TOT
NR
RR
BP
TD
W
D
P
L
1 Umtshezi 2nd 8 5 5 2 0 1 0 0 4.04 1.45 27
2 Zululand Promotion League 2nd 8 4 4 4 0 0 0 0 3.89 0.72 20
3 NDCU 2nd 8 2 3 2 0 3 0 0 2.99 -0.46 20
4 Amajuba Promotion 2nd 8 1 2 4 0 2 0 0 3.24 -0.84 13
5 Umzinyathi 2nd 8 1 2 4 0 2 0 0 2.56 -1.48 13University of KwaZulu-Natal Varsity Cricket Club 50 Over Premier League Winners 2017/2018 Standard Cricket Club 20 Over Premier League Winners 2017/2018
UMPIRES AND
SCORERS
KwaZulu-Natal Inland Cricket has
seen a drastic improvement in
umpiring and scoring this season.
With a scorers and umpires course
taking place at the beginning of
this season, saw a great turnout
for both courses. The quality of
umpiring this season has seen a
drastic improvement and this shows
in both the Premier League and the
Promotional League.
This season, we could assign a linear
scorer at majority of our premier
league fixtures, the highlight was
Mrs. Rall going to the CSA U13
National Week in December 2017 in
which she won the Novice Scorer of
the tournament.
We have umpires in our system going
to elite and national tournaments
throughout the year and this is a
great achievement for Kwa-Zulu
Natal Cricket Inland, which will build
on the experience and expertise that
can be shared to our new umpires
coming through the ranks.AMATEUR OFFICE
CONTACT DETAILS
WHAT’S TO COME:
KwaZulu-Natal Cricket Inland will be hosting an Inaugural Awards Banquet Evening on
the 7th April 2018, this awards function will seek to accolade all those whom have
excelled within our area. The next edition of the Inlander will be released in May and will
encompass plans for the 2018/2019 Season.
#StayPosted
#ThisIsOurGame
#WePlayThisWay
#LetsGoTheInlandBlues
TITLE NAME CELL NR EMAIL
Amateur Manager Jason Sathiaseelan 083 459 0329 jasons@cricket.co.za
Coaching Manager Yashveer Singh 074 615 4628 yashveers@cricket.co.za
Youth Coordinator Warren Neil Naidoo 082 526 3898 naidoo89@gmail.com
Clubs Coordinator Muhammad Jooma 072 866 4829 jooma@hotmail.co.za
Provincial Head Coach Shane Burger 082 563 0595 shaneb@cricket.co.za
Academy Coach and U19 Provincial Mbasa Gqadushe 078 317 7525 mbasag@cricket.co.za
Provincial U15/U17 Coach Yusuf Abdulla 079 845 6069 yusufa@cricket.co.za
Provincial U11/U13 Coach Minenhle Magubane 078 032 9639 minenhlem@cricket.co.za
Women Coach and U19 Girls Richard Hlela 082 355 8629 richardh@cricket.co.za
Stadium Manager Wonderboy Khanyile 083 310 4583 wonderboyk@cricket.co.za
Sweetwaters HUB Lungelo Ndlovu 078 265 4170 lungelo83@yahoo.com
Imbali HUB Jomo Mbili 082 442 3558 jomombili@live.co.uk
KFC Mini Cricket Mercia Baatjies 083 407 2864 merciab@cricket.co.za
Reception Tube Mbumwae 033 345 0202 / kzninlandrecp@cricket.co.za
033 345 2791
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