Cape Town U15 & U14 Cricket Tour

At half term the U15 and U14 cricketers toured Cape Town in South Africa. It proved to be a trip of a life time, with some fantastic games of cricket interspersed with cultural highlights, and amazing scenery. The tour started with a mini-safari at a game lodge in the Western Cape where we were lucky enough to see the ‘Big-Five’ close up. We returned to the city for two training sessions, as well as African drumming lessons, before a week of matches against the following schools: Bishops Diocesan School, Boland Landbou High School, Wynberg Boys’ High School and Pineland High School. The two teams acquitted themselves extremely well, with various notable individual performances, and are now in good shape ahead of the start of the English season. In between the cricket, we explored the highlights of Cape Town, including taking the cable car to the top of Table Mountain, exploring Robben Island where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for 18 years and visiting the largest African Penguin colony at Boulder’s Beach. There was also a very keenly contested inter-squad game of touch rugby on the beach at Camps Bay.

Written by Alexander Langley