April Edition 2018

“Leading Through Cricketing Excellence” THE LATEST INSIGHTS INTO THE HAPPENINGS AND ADVENTURES AT KWAZULU-NATAL INLAND.

This edition will seek to encompass the activities of KwaZulu-Natal Cricket: Inland Competition at club level has improved over the past season from the “ 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 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 taker – Gareth Dukes but we bounced back and won (12 @ 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 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 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 P BP W L D NR TD PEN RR NRR TOT

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 P BP W L D NR TD PEN RR NRR TOT

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 13 University 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.

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TITLE NAME CELL NR EMAIL Amateur Manager Jason Sathiaseelan 083 459 0329 [email protected]

Coaching Manager Yashveer Singh 074 615 4628 [email protected]

Youth Coordinator Warren Neil Naidoo 082 526 3898 [email protected]

Clubs Coordinator Muhammad Jooma 072 866 4829 [email protected]

Provincial Head Coach Shane Burger 082 563 0595 [email protected]

Academy Coach and U19 Provincial Mbasa Gqadushe 078 317 7525 [email protected]

Provincial U15/U17 Coach Yusuf Abdulla 079 845 6069 [email protected]

Provincial U11/U13 Coach Minenhle Magubane 078 032 9639 [email protected]

Women Coach and U19 Girls Richard Hlela 082 355 8629 [email protected]

Stadium Manager Wonderboy Khanyile 083 310 4583 [email protected]

Sweetwaters HUB Lungelo Ndlovu 078 265 4170 [email protected]

Imbali HUB Jomo Mbili 082 442 3558 [email protected]

KFC Mini Cricket Mercia Baatjies 083 407 2864 [email protected]

Reception Tube Mbumwae 033 345 0202 / [email protected] 033 345 2791

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