Issue 5 2016 TABLE OF CONTENTS Inside this issue: Pg. Youth Cricket - 1 RPC & HUBS - 2 Mini Cricket - 3 Women`s Cricket - 4 Club Cricket - 5 Semi Pro - 6 Academy - 7 Scorers/Umpires - 8 Coaching Education - 9 Contacts - 10 WELCOME TO EC NEWS MESSAGE FROM THE AMATEUR MANAGER. The President and Executive Directors in conjunction with the Management and Staff of Eastern Cricket take great pleasure in announcing the appointment of Cassim Suliman as the Chief Executive Officer of Eastern Cricket.Cassim Suliman, nicknamed Cass by his colleagues, is a former ICC-Africa Regional Development Manager and Africa Cricket Association CEO. He is also a former Eastern Cricket employee. Cassim Suliman commented that he was thankful for the opportunity given to him by the Board of Eastern Cricket as the CEO of Easterns. He further commented: "I, together with the team at Eastern Cricket, will endeavour to take Eastern Cricket to greater heights." I am sure that you will all join us in welcoming Cassim to the South African Cricket fraternity and we at Eastern Cricket are looking forward to a long lasting and cordial working relationship with him, commented Eastern Cricket President, Gary Corin. Mr. Suliman commenced his duties on the 1 st September 2016. As another season dawns upon us, it is important that we review the highlights of the past season as well as to look into the challenges going forward. As you might imagine, effectiveness is largely dependent on reviews and strategic planning. During the season ahead, we will focus on the following amongst other priorities: Our Semi-Pro team will compete with great enthusiasm in all formats of the game. The Eastern Women s team will continue to progress from a very good 2015/2016 season. The player pathway and the coach s pathway will concentrate on improved pipelines. The Provincial Academy now fully operational, will be playing many more games and will be intensified. The competitiveness within our club cricket leagues is healthy and strong, the migration of 9 clubs from Gauteng Cricket promises to make our leagues more competitive and exciting. The KFC mini cricket programme continues to serve its objectives; our aim will be to grow the programme. we already had a very successful provincial seminar and a few regional festivals, we now look forward to hosting our provincial festival in October. The area of school s cricket is abuzz as the season is up and running. Our trials for the various age group teams will be held in early October. The highlight of our season will be the hosting of the CSA U17 WEEK, preparations are well underway. A greater effort is being engineered by our affiliates to encourage the growth of scorers and umpires. SAHARA PARK WILLOWMOORE, BENONI TEL: (011) 746 9000 FAX TO EMAIL: (086) 621 7793 The season ahead will see us put in a great deal of time and effort into the ongoing implementation of the new CSA activity based funding model. Emphasis will be placed on the presentations and returns of our P13 and P14 submissions with regards to the cricketing services department. This aspect has seen a steady improvement in our delivery of services, professionalism and better monitoring structures. It is hoped that the season ahead, will see us celebration our successes. THANK YOU Leonard Rajagapaul Easterns Cricket
Page 1 YOUTH CRICKET Kenneth Masinga SCHOOLS LOGS INDWE PLATINUM LEAGUE LOGS 2016 O14A O14B SCHOOL WIN LOSS DRAW POINTS WIN LOSS DRAW POINTS ACTONVILLE 5 0 3 0 BENONI HIGH 1 2 4 2 1 8 DINAMIKA 1 2 4 3 0 DR EG JANSEN 3 0 12 2 8 HUGENOTE 3 0 12 3 0 OOSTERLIG 1 2 4 2 1 8 SCHOOL WIN LOSS DRAW POINTS WIN LOSS DRAW POINTS ALBERTON HIGH 0 3 0 0 3 0 HANS MOORE 3 0 12 1 2 4 JEUGLAND 1 1 4 2 8 KEMPTON 1 2 4 1 2 4 MARAIS VILJOEN 2 1 8 3 0 12 INDWE PLATINUM LEAGUE LOGS 2016 015A 015B SCHOOL WIN LOSS DRAW POINT S WIN LOSS DRAW POINTS ACTONVILLE 1 3 4 0 5 0 BENONI HIGH 3 12 1 4 DINAMIKA 2 0 8 0 5 0 DR EG JANSEN 3 12 0 HUGENOTE 1 2 4 0 OOSTERLIG 4 0 1 0 SCHOOL WIN LOSS DRAW POINT S WIN LOSS DRAW POINTS ALBERTON HIGH 0 4 0 0 4 0 HANS MOORE 3 1 12 3 0 12 JEUGLAND 2 1 8 1 0 KEMPTON 1 3 4 2 1 8 MARAIS VILJOEN 3 0 12 1 2 4
YOUTH CRICKET INDWE PLATINUM LEAGUE LOGS 2016 1ST TEAM 2nd 3rd LOS DR POI LOS S AW NTS WIN S SCHOOL WIN LOSS DRAW POINTS WIN DR AW POI NTS ACTONVILLE 0 4 0-1 0 5 0 0 1 0 BENONI HIGH 3 1 0 11 2 2 0 8 1 1 4 DINAMIKA 2 2 0 7 3 2 0 12 1 0 DR EG JAN- SEN 4 0 0 16 4 0 0 16 1 4 HUGENOTE 2 2 0 8 4 1 0 16 1 0 OOSTERLIG 1 3 0 4 0 5 0 0 2 8 SCHOOL WIN LOSS DRAW POINTS WIN WIN ALBERTON HIGH 0 4 0-2 0 3 0 0 0 2 0 0 HANS MOORE 3 1 0 12 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 JEUGLAND 2 1 6 1 1 0 4 0 2 0 0 KEMPTON 1 3 0 4 3 1 0 12 3 1 0 12 MARAIS VILJOEN 3 0 0 12 3 0 0 12 4 0 0 16 LOS S DR AW POI NTS LOS S DR AW POI NTS Sum of Total Batting Runs Name Team Total J. ALDER Marais Viljoen 285 J. Brink Hans Moore 198 S. Khan Hans Moore 194 O HART Dinamika 137 B HARWOOD Benoni High 133 JACQUES NEL EG Jansen 121 J HART Dinamika 120 R. Baker Hans Moore 111 D. Miller Hans Moore 108 D LE GRANGE Dinamika 101 Sum of Total Wickets Name Team Total S V ZYL Hugenote 0 D DE WET Hugenote 0 A. Schultz Alberton High 0 M V VUUREN Oosterlig 0 Andrew White Kempton 0 P VENTER Oosterlig 0 C. Steyn Alberton High 0 D BOTES Oosterlig 0 E. Pepin Alberton High 0 J ROUX Oosterlig 0
YOUTH CRICKET SCHOOL NAME WICKETS Marais Viljoen Wickets 26 Kempton Wickets 18 Hans Moore Wickets 33 Alberton High Wickets 6 Actonville Wickets 8 Benoni High Wickets 25 Dinamika Wickets 23 EG Jansen Wickets 21 Hugenote Wickets 21 Oosterlig Wickets 21 Jeugland Wickets 10 SCHOOL NAME Marais Viljoen Runs Kempton Runs Hans Moore Runs Alberton High Runs Actonville Runs Benoni High Runs Dinamika Runs EG Jansen Runs Hugenote Runs Oosterlig Runs Jeugland Runs REGIONAL CAMP AND NATIONAL CAMP Musa Twala has been identified through under 17 regional and national camps he attended and by virtue of his age he forms part Of a 36-man monitoring squad working towards the 2018 under 19 world cup in New Zealand. He will be monitored on aspects like his technical ability as well as his physical and mental state over next 18 months 2016 NATIONAL WEEK TOURNAMENT TEAM VENUE DATE UNDER 13 CAPE TOWN 9-13 DECEMBER UNDER 15 NORTH WEST 8-12 DECEMBER UNDER 16 GIRLS JOHANNESBURG UNDER 17 BENONI 11-15 DECEMBER LSEN JOHANNESBURG 3-7 OCTOBER UNDER 19 GIRLS PRETORIA 9-13 DECEMBER UNDER 19 BLOEMFOINTEIN 16-20 DECEMBER SA SCHOOLS CHAMPIONSHIP JOHANNESBURG 10-15 DECEMBER
Page 2 REGIONAL PERFORMANCE CENTRE & HUBS Patros Mofokeng/Itumeleng Ntsoane For the first time since our new repair of our pitches it went smoothly in Duduza. We are very excited that most of our games will be played home and it`s very good for our community to watch cricket in this venue. Our new pitch is ready for cricket activities for all players in our area. As Cricket South Africa said hubs must play their games in the township and it is an opportunity for our Duduza community to come and support our boys and to grow as club. Kwa-Thema The are 3 schools affiliated to participate in the regional league in conjunction with Eastern Schools Association. The Primary school [Theo-Twala primary] is participating in Brakpan region. The High school [Tlakula high & Kenneth Masikela secondary] The teams participating are Tlakula high under 19 girls, Tlakula high under 15B [Wednesday], Tlakula high under 19[Saturday] for Golden league & Kenneth Masikela secondary under 19B [Thursday]. We hosting matches for the Brakpan league primary schools in our artificial pitches. Home games for High schools were played in Prince Thete oval turf wicket which was under construction for the past 15 months. Kwa-Thema groundsman Maxwell Mtsweni in conjunction with Eastern Cricket [Brandan Frost] inspected the pitch the 15th September & both approved that Kwa-Thema cricket is ready to host club cricket for season 2016 & 2017. Kwa-Thema Hub for club cricket entered the following teams in Eastern juniors association under 8a, u8b, u10super, u12super&u14super. Seniors structure we entered the 5th league team, woman team [Saturday]. Premier league, Promotion league & colt league [Sundays].
Page 3 KFC MINI CRICKET Christopher Hlengani PROVINCIAL FESTIVAL Eastern Cricket Held the KFC Mini Cricket Provincial Seminar Friday, 05 August 2016. The Theme of the season is Living in Excellence.
KFC MINI CRICKET REGIONAL FIXTURES Regional fixtures have commenced with all the regions, and it`s nice to see kids participating through these games and having a lot of fun. The coaches have pushed for us to start living excellency and enjoyment. It`s always a good to see all the LSEN schools taking part in the programme. The mini cricket activities play`s a big role in our schools to give each and every kid an opportunity to take part in wonderful sport like this one.
KFC MINI CRICKET REGIONAL FESTIVALS The Vosloorus region hosted their regional festival on 22 nd July 2016 at Nageng Primary School. The festival had 256 kids from the Primary schools on the day. The Vosloorus region has grown their programme by hosting 64 kids from the Preschools to be part of the regional fesrtival. The Tsakane region hosted their regional festival on the 17 of September 2016. The festival took place at Shadrack Mbambo Primary School. The event had 224 kids and they had lots of fun and placed good competitive cricket.
KFC MINI CRICKET REGIONAL FESTIVALS Duduza cricket hub hosted a regional mini cricket festival on the 28 September 2016. We had 13 primary schools that took part, each school had 5 teams, 3 teams of boys and 2 teams of girls. And reach team had an official coach. Total number of kids on the day was 340 and 60 official s coaches. It was a very successful festival, all the kids did enjoy and had fun on the day. We played 2 rounds of matches. After the first round we had a break for kids and officials to get something to eat and drinks. Kids did also perform on lunch time having some bread, juice and vienna rolls. All the teachers where very happy with the festival. They even said we must make it happen every month. A big thanks to Mpho-mofokeng who coordinated the hole program, he did the fixtures and score sheets. It was very nice to see him involved. Duduza hub can now say we are producing now players, coaches, scorers, officials.
Page 4 WOMEN`S CRICKET Yolandi Frost The Eastern Women s Provincial have played 3 Friendlies in September. 3 September 50 over against Belvedia LSEN and on the 17 September 2 x T20 against Belvedia. The Eastern Women s Provincial away game is on the 8th & 9th October 2016 against Mpumulanga in Mpumulanga and on the 22 &23rd October is a home game against Northerns. The Season training is going well with the ladies. The ladies have attended a gym session on the 3rd August 2016 for a cancer cause. The Girls High performance took place in the off season.
Page 5 CLUB CRICKET Berrelyn Platt The Club Cricket Season will commence on the 1 st October 2016. We currently have one hundred and 29 (129) teams and thirtytwo (32) clubs that will participate in the leagues this season. Included in the thirty-two (32) clubs, eight (8) clubs have joined Eastern Cricket after the Geopolitical Demarcation was implemented. The League entries for this season are as follows: Club Cricket League Team Structure Senior Section 2016-17 Premier League Promotion League Directors League Chairman League Actonville Spurs Group 1 Alberton Avion Alberton Alberton Bakerton YS Benoni Northerns Bedfordview Boksburg Bedfordview Cambridge Benoni Northerns CBC Old Boys Benoni Northerns Daveyton Boksburg Katlehong CBC Old Boys Duduza CBC Old Boys Kempton Park Kempton Park A Kempton Park Duduza Group 2 Kempton Park B Nigel Kempton Park Actonville Spurs Springs Old Boys Tembisa Kwa Thema Bedfordview United Tsakane Springs Old Boys Benoni Northerns Vosloorus Tembisa United Midrand United Group 3 Avion Etwatwa Kwa Thema Scaw Metals Tembisa Group 4 Bakerton YS Daveyton Duduza Springs Old Boys Wattville
CLUB CRICKET President League Colts League 1 st League 2 nd League Group 1 Group 1 Alberton Bakerton YS Alberton Avion Bedfordview Boksburg Bakerton Young Stars Benoni Northerns Benoni Northerns Daveyton Duduza Boksburg Boksburg Kempton Park Etwatwa Kempton Park A CBC Old Boys Midrand Kempton Park Kempton Park B Kempton Park A Scaw Metals Vosloorus Springs Old Boys Kempton Park B Tembisa Group 2 United Nigel Actonville Wattville Springs Old Boys Bakerton YS Group 2 United Champions Alberton Geluksdal Bedfordview Scaw Metals Champions Thokoza Duduza Kwa Thema Tembisa Thokoza Tsakane 3 rd League 4 th League 5 th League Women s League Actonville Spurs Actonville Spurs Actonville Spurs Benoni Northerns Benoni Northerns Bedfordview Duduza Duduza Boksburg A Benoni Northerns Eden Park Kempton Park Boksburg B Geluksdal Etwatwa Kwa Thema CBC Old Boys Germiston Kwa Thema Tsakane Kempton Park Midrand Vosloorus United Nigel Reiger Park Wattville Vosloorus Rynsoord Springs Old Boys Springs Old Boys Tsakane Sunward Wattville We are looking forward to an exciting club cricket season! Fixtures of all clubs matches are available on our website: www.easternscricket.co.za as well as on www.webcricket.co.za
Page 6 SEMI PRO Andre Nel Since we have started with pre-season on the 1st July, we have preparing for the season but especially the Africa Cup tournament that was taking place from the 9th 11th September in East London. Preparation has gone really well so far. Guys have been training hard with our fitness trainer Devon van Onselen to get fitness levels on par with the Titans guys. Skills training has also been going very well and guys have made massive strides in how their skills has improved. We have also been fortunate enough to have gone on a pre-season tour to Skukuza in The Kruger National Park from the 31 st August to the 4th September. It was an amazing experience for all off us to see the Big 5 in their natural environment. We had some good team building things arrange and all of these where brilliant for us to gel as a team and get all of us on the same page for upcoming season. The outstanding thing about our pre-season tour was to touch a Rhino in The Boma s and then the next day to hike in the bush to where a Rhino was unfortunately poached. It put everything in perspective again how brutal they are and how quickly this beautiful animal is becoming in danged. We left our pre- season tour a lot closer and ready for the season to start. We had a few days to do our final preparations for the Africa Cup after our pre-season tour. We trained well and the squad selected was ready to leave for East London to represent Easterns. We had a final training session in East London and we felt ready to on the challenges of the Africa Cup. Our first match was against Border on Friday evening. We unfortunately didn t play up to our standards and we lost our first game against Border. Very disappointing the way we played but we addressed those issues and ready to take on Free State in our second game. There was lots off rain expected in East London over the weekend and unfortunately they weren t wrong. Our game against Free State got rained out and it rained so much that our game against Zimbabwe also got called off on Sunday morning. It ended up the only games that took place was on Friday and due to the tournament rules the Pool will be decided on a lucky draw of balls. The draw took place on Sunday morning and unfortunately we fell out and didn t win the pool but Zimbabwe did. Very disappointing weekend for us!!! We had a few days rest after the Africa Cup tournament and then we started preparing for our season that starts on the 6 October against Free State with a 3 day game. In preparation for that we also playing a warm up game against The Lions from the 21 st 23rd September. Hopefully we will get some good challenges in this game to help us prepare for our season. All in all I think we on the right track to hopefully have a successful season and have some new and young players putting some good performances for Easterns.
Page 7 ACADEMY Ephraim Nyawo As the season is about to begin, the boys have been hard at practice sessions. In the past few months the boys have played couple of games against our Semi pro team and the boys did well. It shows all the hard work we have been doing it s paying off. The boys have improved on their skills and their fitness and mental toughness. It was good to see sum of our Academy boys got selected to play in the Africa Tournament at East London, and some boys went into the off season camp with our Semi Pro team at Skukuza. In the space off 2 Month the Academy boys have played Matches. On the 12 th to the 14th of September 2016 VS Gauteng Academy Team, we played two T20 and two 50/50 overs matches. On the 18 th and 19th of September 2016 we played two T20 against our Semi Pro team. On the 6th and 8th we played two 50/50 Matches against Ghana. It was good to see the boys applying their skills on the field against the other teams.
Page 8 SCORERS & UMPIRES Yolandi Frost Scorers There were scorers that have scored for the ACA Tournament from 10 18 September 2016.A few scorers have been selected to score for the ODI on 25th September 2016 South Africa vs. Ireland and on 27 th September 2016 Australia vs. Ireland. The club season is getting nearer and all the scorers are looking forward for the matches that will be taking place. All the courses on the different levels have been conducted in the off season respectively. Umpires The umpires had training with 2 x CSA Umpires on the 6 & 7 August 2016. The attendance of our umpires were good.
Page 9 COACHING EDUCATION Marvin Tsehisi The focus in off season for this year 2016 was to emphasis fundamental of different skills for each and every coaches to understand and to improve their cricket knowledge. The most important attribute of any coach is that they want to help the person or people they are coaching to learn. Easterns cricket coaching education department implemented the program designed to up skill the knowledge of the coaches in all the regions. The respond from coaches was fantastic and the future looks much brighter. A good coach doesn`t see themselves as an expert able to fix all problems and having all the answers. Instead, they see themselves as supporting the process of learning. The project is so fun and energetic and you can`t implement it alone you need a strong team, all tools and materials to be successful. I will like to take this opportunity to thank you Cricket South Africa for supporting the program and see that Cricket is growing in this country for future purpose. Well done Team
COACHING EDUCATION The following coaching courses took place as follows: Level of Course Course Date Venue 2 12-15 July 2016 Sahara Park Willowmoore 1 20-25 July 2016 Sahara Park Willowmoore 1 01-06 August 2016 Sahara Park Willowmoore 1 02-04 September 2016 Alberton Cricket Club The level III course was held at the CSA Centre of Excellence from Monday 5 th to Friday 9th September 2016 in Pretoria and the following candidates Hendrik van der Kruit and Casey Arnold attended. Our intention is to have more qualified coaches in our structure and more level III in future. The last year level II group will be forming part of refresher course in October. The main objective for that is to start preparing coaches for next year level III course respectively. Whether you`re a professional coach, a leader or manager using a coaching approach to help your team members develop, or using your coaching skills in a less formal environment, there are a number of key skills that will help you to become a great coach.
Page 10 CONTACTS Amateur Manager Leonard Rajagapaul Leonardr@cricket.co.za Club Administrator/Marketing Berrelyn Platt berrelynp@cricket.co.za Affiliates Administrator Yolandi Frost yolandif@cricket.co.za Youth Cricket Administrator Kenneth Masinga kennethm@cricket.co.za Coaches Education Marvin Tsehisi marvint@cricket.co.za Andre Nel Head Coach andren@cricket.co.za KFC Mini Cricket Christopher Hlengani israelh@cricket.co.za