Eastern Gauteng Action Cricket celebrates clean sweep

Eastern Gauteng Action Cricket is excited and proud of their teams which cleaned up at the junior Inter-provincial Tournament (IPTs) in Pietermaritzburg from Saturday, July 1 to July 9.

Forty-nine teams participated in the provincial Little League (u-10 age group through to u-13) with Easterns claiming bronze medals in the u-10 and u-11 category.

Special achievements and individual awards were:

• Tristan Havenga – awarded Best Bowler in the u-11 age group

• Players who made the All Stars side in their age group: Zieg Roos (u-10), Marco Mendes (u-11), Wiehann Smith (u-11), Kyle Schwartz (u-13)

• Selections for the South African training squad in the u-14 junior category: JJ Havenga and Nico Steyn.

The Eastern Gauteng u-14 to u-18 junior teams finished off the week by enjoying a momentous clean sweep with gold medals in the u-14, u-16 and u-18 age categories.

The u-16s also scooped the Plate win.

Special achievements and individual awards in the junior category were:

• Byron Giraudeaux – awarded Best Batsman in the u-14 category

• Christopher Pistorius – awarded Most Valued Player in the u-14 category

• Bryce Parsons – awarded Best Batsman and Most Valued Player in the u-16 category

• Ethan Hughes – awarded Best Bowler in the u-18 category

• Ian Crawshaw – awarded Most Valued Player in the u-18 category.

• Players who made the All Stars side in their age group: Ian Crawshaw, Ethan Hughes, Logan Joubert, Brett Martindale, Deon Mouton, Matthew Wittstock and Glen Chapman.

• Selected to join the South African u-16 training squad: Dylan van Zyl, Brandon Haynes and Liam le Grange.

• Selected to join the South African u-18 training squad: William Harrison, Kian Schwartz, Joshua Taylor, Joshua Britz, Ethan Hughes, Conner Parsons, Bryce Parsons and Bryce Dhooge.

• Shawn Schwartz, Kurtis Thomson and Frank Newberry were selected as officials for the national teams to tour Dubai in 2018.

The gold medal winning u-14 Eastern Gauteng Action Cricket side.
The champion u-16 Eastern Gauteng Action Cricket side.

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