Teenager selected for U20 Indoor Cricket World Cup
RANDPARK RIDGE –Brunner started playing cricket when he was four.
Cameron Brunner has made it to the South African U20 indoor cricket team.
The 17-year-old Brunner found out at the inter-provincial tournament that he had been selected for the side. Brunner explained that twenty players each from the indoor cricket trials and the cricket action came together to determine who would be selected.
“I play for Northerns in Centurion,” said Brunner. He previously played for Castle Lite Superleague tournament and represented Sandton Action Arena and Sandton Sharks Men’s A team.
The SA U20 team will in 2017 travel to Dubai for the Indoor Cricket World Cup. This is the second feather in his cap as Brunner attended the Junior World Cup last year, and in 2017 he will be taking part in the men’s world cup.
Currently a Grade 11 pupil at Rand Park High School, Brunner began his cricket career at the tender age of four. He said his indoor cricket career began when,”My older brother would let me join in his social indoor league games whenever they were short of a player. From there the game stuck with me.”
In outdoor cricket, Brunner was one of 12 Gauteng U17 boys invited to attend the Cricket South Africa U17 Lions Camp in April this year. He also plays for the Randburg Premier League, which is one of the top leagues in the country.
Brunner hopes to take both his indoor and outdoor cricket dream further. “I would love to play for the one the bigger franchises for outdoor cricket because I believe it can take you further than indoor.” His two universities of choice would be either Tuks or Pukke.
Rand Park High cricket first team coach, Jimmy Breakey is who Brunner counts as one of his biggest influences. “Breakey helped me develop my cricket to a whole new level with his positive attitude and respect for the game,” added Brunner.
“I am also very lucky to have my Gauteng North coach ,Gert de Beer, and manager, Braam Oosthuizen, follows me through to the U20s.”
To have achieved so much, so soon, Brunner must have an intense love for the game. He explains that there is no ‘you and me’ in cricket but a ‘we’. “I love that cricket is a team game, you can’t play as one person; you do have to work as a team,”
“My favourite Protea player is Quinton de Kock,” said Brunner. Joining the South African Protea’s is Brunner’s ultimate goal.
