{"id":30374,"date":"2023-11-14T12:05:21","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T10:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cricket.supersportschools.com\/?p=2865"},"modified":"2023-11-14T12:05:21","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T10:05:21","slug":"a-remarkable-achievement-for-saints-trio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=30374","title":{"rendered":"A remarkable achievement for Saints&#8217; trio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2872 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cricket.supersportschools.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/kwena-maphaka-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/>In a truly remarkable achievement for <strong>St Stithians College<\/strong>, four of their cricketers were named in the provisional <strong>SA u19 cricket squad<\/strong>, which is set to fly the flag for the rainbow nation at the <strong>ICC u19 Cricket World Cup <\/strong>in Sri Lanka from 13 January to 4 February.<\/p>\n<p>What elevates the selection of <strong>Kwena Maphaka<\/strong>, <strong>Richard Seletswane<\/strong> and <strong>Lhuan-dre Pretorius<\/strong> to the next level is the fact that all three are in grade 11 only. The thought for Saints&#8217; opposition that they have to put up with another year of the triumvirate must be intimidating.<\/p>\n<p>The fourth Saints&#8217; cricketer is Esosa Aihevba, who served on the school&#8217;s Student Affairs Committee as the Head of Sport in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>For Maphaka, it has been an incredible year. Not only has he excelled on the cricket field, but he was also part of the St Stithians 1st hockey team that captured the <strong>Aitken Trophy<\/strong>, Johannesburg&#8217;s premier schools&#8217; hockey competition, for the first time in 48 years.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, he was the youngest player in the South African under-19 squad, still aged 16. This year, in June, he made his first-class debut, turning out for <strong>South Africa A<\/strong> against Sri Lanka A, and returning figures of 2 for 43 and 1 for 27 as a first- or second-change bowler. Incredibly, at the time, he had not yet represented his province, the <strong>Lions<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Maphaka was also named the <strong>Under-19 Men&#8217;s Player of the Year<\/strong> at <strong>Cricket South Africa<\/strong>&#8216;s pathway awards ceremony for the 2022-23 season.<\/p>\n<p>In October, he was selected by the <strong>Paarl Royals<\/strong> in the <strong>SA20<\/strong> auction. There, he&#8217;ll be joined by his schoolmate Lhuan-dre Pretorius, who was also tagged by the Royals.<\/p>\n<p>Mphaka, Pretorius and Seletswane were, furthermore, part of the <strong>SA Emerging<\/strong> team that won the <strong>CSA Provincial One-Day Challenge Division Two<\/strong> title in October with a comprehensive 8-wicket victory over the previously undefeated <strong>ITEC Knights<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a truly remarkable achievement for St Stithians College, four of their cricketers were named in the provisional SA u19 cricket squad, which is set to fly the flag for the rainbow nation at the ICC u19 Cricket World Cup in Sri Lanka from 13 January to 4 February. What elevates the selection of Kwena [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":30066,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}