ONE of the longest running school cricket weeks in the country will be hosted by Union High School this weekend, with 10 leading teams competing in matches from September 20 to 24.
In its centenary year, the Graaff-Reinet school will host the 52nd anniversary celebrations of the Cape Schools’ Week.
The tournament was started in the 1960s, with eight teams, four from the EP and Border and four from Cape Town; meeting for a festival of cricket.
The original teams were Grey, Queen’s Dale and Union High from the eastern region, with the Western Cape sides being SACS, Wynberg, Bishops and Rondebosch.
Paarl Boys’ High will be back this year, taking on Queen’s College at Asante Sana Game Reserve in their opening match on September 21.
SACS, the oldest high school in South Africa, will be taking part again this year, with their first match to take place on Saturday, against host school Union High on Union’s Minnaar Field.
Paul Roos is also in the line-up and should have an interesting opener against Dale College on Saturday at the Botanics Sports Club, while Grey High School will Rondebosch in their opener on Saturday at Hoër Volkskool, while Selborne College will be up against Wynberg in their opener on Saturday at Union’s Puttick Field.
Following Saturday’s game against SACS, Union will play Paarl Boys, Paul Roos and Wynberg.
The fixtures are:
) Friday
: Friendly “EP vs WP” (Botanics Sports Club at 18:00).
) Saturday
: Union High vs SACS (Minnaar Field), Selborne College vs Wynberg (Puttick Field), Grey High vs Rondebosch (Hoër Volkskool), Dale College vs Paul Roos (Botanics Sports Club) and Queen’s College vs Paarl Boys (Asante Sana Game Reserve).
) Sunday
: Union High vs Paarl Boys (Minnaar Field), Queen’s College vs Paul Roos (Puttick Field), Selborne College vs SACS (Hoër Volkskool), Grey High vs Wynberg (Botanics Sports Club) and Dale College vs Rondebosch (Asante Sana Game Reserve).
) Monday: Union High vs Paul Roos (Minnaar Field), Dale College vs Paarl Boys (Puttick Field), Queen’s College vs Wynberg (Hoër Volkskool), Selborne College vs Rondebosch (Botanics Sports Club) and Grey High vs SACS (Asante Sana Game Reserve).
) Tuesday: Union High vs Wynberg (Minnaar Field), Grey High vs Paarl Boys (Puttick Field), Dale College vs SACS (Hoër Volkskool), Queen’s College vs Rondebosch (Botanics Sports Club) and Selborne College vs Paul Roos (Asante Sana Game Reserve).
All games will start at 09:00, with the exception of those at the Asante Sana Game Reserve which will start at 09:30.
