The Inlander |April 2019|
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KwaZulu-Natal Cricket Inland THE INLANDER |APRIL 2019| KwaZulu-Natal Cricket Union COACHING MANAGERS ADDRESS The Pietermaritzburg City Oval Cricket Services Manager: [email protected] “The only way to get out of mediocrity is Coaching Manager: to keep shooting for excellence”, Eric [email protected] Thomas. Page 1 Cricket Services Manager Address. Page 2 Youth Cricket – Schools Round- Up 2018/2019. “KwaZulu-Natal Cricket Inland has had an extremely busy season. The coach education department on its own has completed a number of activities which has seen us visit all 6 geo-political structures this season. Page 3 We have tried to conduct various upliftment programs in the regions and have been successful. We look to grow this to greater heights come next season. Club Cricket – Clubs Wrap-Up Cricket South Africa’s initiatives with the Player Perfromance Plans and the measuring tool through the 2018/2019. strategic focus has assisted KZN Inland tremendously this past season with these plans rolled out to level playing fields across the board, whilst our results in terms of bridging the gaps at National Weeks have left Page 4 a lot to work on, we as KZN Inland are confident that togther with all 4 Framework Coaches, we will be making great strides in improving these players at youth level. Mini-Cricket – Season Wrap-Up. Academy and Senior Cricket have gone through ups and down this season with improved results in certain Page 5 departments as well as chanage of personell. We have yet again started the 2018/2019 Season with new personell in the Academy Position with Minenhle Magubane and Yusuf Abdulla taking over in the interim from Shane Burger as we bid farewell to him. Off-Season Training in Cricket. Our season has definitely come with many challenges, however, we have managed to pull through and Page 6 produce where possible, handling of transitions and enforcing coach upliftement has been difficult, we require more activeley involved coaching to join our structures and be involved with our programs. We Provincial Coaching Planner believe we have begun this process and hope to see it grow in the new season. 2019/2020. Thank you to all stakeholders and the community members of KZN Cricket Inland for their support this Page 7 past season. I will continue to urge all who are interested to spread the word and encourage cricket and coaching of cricket across our structures, I look forward to engaging with all stakeholders at the start of next season! #ThisIsOurGame #GrowingPeople #WePlayThisWay.” What’s to come? - Contact Details. Yashveer Singh – KwaZulu-Natal Cricket Inland Coaching Manager. “Coaching is realizing a persons potential to maximize their own potential. It is helping them to learn, rather than teaching them”, Tasmania Cricket Club. KwaZulu-Natal Cricket Inland THE INLANDER |APRIL 2019| PAGE 1 Cricket Services Managaer Address “How time flies. Another season has come to an end. The 2018/2019 season has indeed been a busy one for KZN Inland. We enjoyed hosting the Africa Cup which saw us use two venues. This was an overwhelming success and we must thank our friends at UKZN Pietermaritzburg for their support and contribution to the success of that tournament. Our senior provincial team had an indifferent season. Having the coach leave in the second half of the season meant the assistant coach Yusuf Abdullah had to take over. Dolphins call ups on the bowling front meant we played our remaining matches with an under-strength attack but the performances of our batters Luke Schlemmer and Grant Roelofsen was a positive as we look to build our team with a new coach for next season. Thanks and appreciation to all cricket services staff for the sterling work put in during the season. We have achieved the majority of our targets and grown the game in the Inland region during the season just completed. We look forward to the new season which will come with its own challenges. KZN Inland is looking forward to hosting the Proteas women’s team in May when they play Pakistan. We will also be hosting the U19 series between South Africa and Pakistan in June/July. So, there is no off-season at Inland as we prepare for a host of activities. We thank all those that have supported us during the 2018/2019 season and look forward to your continued support next season.” Jason Sathiaseelan – KwaZulu-Natal Crikcet Inland Cricket Services Manager. Jason Sathiaseelan with the KwaZulu-Natal RPC Squad who were placed 3rd overall at the RPC Week in Potchefstroom. KwaZulu-Natal Cricket Inland THE INLANDER |APRIL 2019| PAGE 2 Youth Cricket – Schools Round-Up 2018/2019 “Since I took charge of Youth Cricket at Inland for the past 8 months, it has been a good year filled with many successes, with more improvements to be done at KZN Inland Cricket, we are sure to reach greater heights. This season we had successful Regional and National weeks trials and Final trials in August to September 2018 hosted by Howick Prep, St Charles College and Hilton College, in preparation for National and Regional weeks. We also had a successful Under 12 and 13 festival in September 2018 at St Charles College, Under 18 Weston and Voortrekker Weeks. KZN Inland also hosted KZN Coastal versus KZN Inland U11,12 and 13 Festival (The Tollgate Cup) at St Charles College, the festival is also used as a camp for our junior teams in preparation for Regional and National weeks, also we hosted a successful U15,17,19 boys and U19 Girls National week camp at Michaelhouse in November 2018. On the down side of things, is that we did not have the results as we wanted at Regional and National Weeks. Reflection has been done and plans put into place come the start of the new season. I’m proud that KZN Inland hosted a very successful U19 Girls National Week at Michaelhouse in December 2018, not ending there, also hosting a very success Provincial Coca Cola Schools T20 Challenge Finals and a great Regional Final between St Charles College (Inland) versus Westville Boys High (Coastal) at Pietermaritzburg Cricket Oval in February 2019. As KZN Inland we also recently hosted a successful schools Annual General Meeting with all the Inland schools, also making sure that we still on the right track to drive forward our school/youth cricket to be in a healthier state for us to keep producing future Proteas stars, both in women and men’s cricket. Overall I would like to thank all the KZN Inland Schools for the passion and assistance they keep offering me in making sure that youth cricket grows in all corners of Inland and would like to thank KZN Inland Cricket and KZN Cricket Union as whole on making sure that we working together hand in hand driving the Youth Cricket Ship together to achieve successful results although there is still so much more to be done. In closing I would like to thank Michaelhouse in hosting a great U19 Girls tournament, so many good reviews are coming out of it and greatly thank St Charles College for making KZN Inland proud in reaching the Coca Cola Schools T20 National Final in their first year being at National Finals.” Kwazi Mdlulu – KwaZulu-Natal Cricket Inland: Youth Coordinator. KwaZulu-Natal Cricket Inland THE INLANDER |APRIL 2019| PAGE 3 Club Cricket Wrap-Up 2018/2019 “Curatorship of Carter was taken over by the union to maintain the high quality standard of our wickets in Inland. We have maintained the wicket throughout the season and indeed that has paid dividends with the good standard of cricket being played at Carter. We have also assisted Lancashire CC in maintenance of the wicket at Woodlands (Michael Patricks Oval). The 2018/2019 season has been a very stop-start season with the weather prevailing as the winner on many occasions and other times. Going forth our plan is now to sit with clubs in the premier league and have one on one meetings to discuss the positives and working points to discuss going forward into the new season. In closing, we have a Premier league play-off fixture between the Premier league last placed team Greytown CC vs Umthsezi CC whom are the Promotional league winners on the 07th April 2019. “ Muhammad Jooma – Clubs and Facilities Coordinator. PREMIER LEAGUE LOGS KZN Inland Premier Division 50 Overs - Pool A Pos Team P W L NR RR NRR BP Tot 1 Standard Cricket Club 1st 17 13 1 3 4.86 2.44 11 69 2 Varsity CC 1st 17 10 1 6 4.64 2.34 8 59 3 Lancashire CC 1st 17 6 8 3 3.67 0.49 6 36 4 Zingari CC 1st 17 6 9 2 3.09 -0.12 4 32 5 Newcastle Cricket Club 1st 17 4 8 5 3.76 -0.16 3 29 KZN Inland Premier Division 50 Overs - Pool B Pos Team P W L NR RR NRR BP Tot 1 MCC Cricket Club 1st 17 6 6 5 3.54 0.56 5 39 2 Cosmos Cricket Club 1st 17 5 8 4 3.09 -1.13 3 31 3 Young Natalians 1st 17 4 8 5 2.18 -1.01 3 28 4 Greytown CC 1st 17 2 8 7 2.3 -1.65 1 23 5 Masibemunye Cricket Club 1st 17 2 9 6 2.26 -2.65 0 20 KwaZulu-Natal Cricket Inland THE INLANDER |FEBRUARY 2019| PAGE 4 Mini-Cricket Activities “The KFC Mini Cricket Programme is always a programme that is jammed packed with events.