{"id":30381,"date":"2023-11-17T16:10:14","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T14:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cricket.supersportschools.com\/?p=2984"},"modified":"2023-11-17T16:10:14","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T14:10:14","slug":"battle-tested-free-state-ready-for-khaya-majola-cricket-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=30381","title":{"rendered":"Battle-tested Free State ready for Khaya Majola Cricket Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2994\" src=\"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/FSCU-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/>The <strong>Free State<\/strong> contingent that will be competing at the <strong>2023 Coca-Cola Khaya Majola<\/strong> <strong>Cricket Week<\/strong> boasts a core group of six veterans who took part in the event last year.<\/p>\n<p>Watch all the games live on <strong>SuperSport Schools &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/supersportschools\">Register now<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Samokelo Lepheto<\/strong>, <strong>Sicelo Matayi<\/strong> and <strong>Johnathan Muller<\/strong> are the three players from <strong>Grey College<\/strong> who were part of the team in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>This year, they are joined by five of their schoolmates, which gives the Free Staters the advantage of familiarity with one another&#8217;s games.<\/p>\n<p>The other three returnees are <strong>Andre du Preez<\/strong> and<strong> Dakalo Leketa<\/strong> from <strong>St Andrew&#8217;s School<\/strong>, along with <strong>HTS Louis Botha<\/strong>&#8216;s sole representative, <strong>Khanyisile Nondwangu<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Muller and Leketa both earned a place in the <strong>SA Colts<\/strong> team after their performances at the event last year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Connor Nel<\/strong> and <strong>Jordan van den Berg<\/strong> complete Saints&#8217; quadruple selections. On the rugby field, Nel captained the St Andrew&#8217;s 1st XV and enjoyed a good season as a counterattacking fullback.<\/p>\n<p>Although there is no Free State player currently in the <a href=\"https:\/\/cricket.supersportschools.com\/provisional-sa-u19-squad-named-for-world-cup\/\">provisional SA u19 squad<\/a> for January&#8217;s ICC u19 Cricket World Cup in Sri Lanka, there will be a couple of players in the team who the selectors will place under the microscope in Makhanda in December.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Team<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Free State u19:<\/strong> Dale Williams (Grey College), Jordan van den Berg (St Andrew&#8217;s School), Samokelo Lepheto (Grey College), Juan Viljoen (Grey College), Connor Nel (St Andrew&#8217;s), Andre du Preez (St Andrew&#8217;s), Khanyisile Nondwangu (HTS Louis Botha), Sicelo Matayi (Grey College), Johnathan Muller (Grey College), Dakalo Leketa (St Andrew&#8217;s), Ruben Maree (Grey College), Darion Rabie (Grey College), Kamohelo Mokoena (Grey College).<\/p>\n<p><strong>8 Grey College | 4 St Andrew&#8217;s School | 1 HTS Louis Botha<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Free State u16:\u00a0<\/strong>Adem Niewoudt (Grey College), Naude Botha (St Andrew&#8217;s School), Eddie Mabena (Grey College), Cullen Marais (Grey College), FG Botha (St Andrew&#8217;s School), Lebohang Mohloni (HTS Sasolburg), Henru de Wet (Grey College), Nikhil Sukraj (Sasolburg High), Cullen Kakora (St Andrew&#8217;s School), Otto Krause (Grey College), Onalenna Molale (Kagisho Comprehensive), Lamla Mgedezi (Grey College), Kabelo Mosia (Ho\u00ebrskool Henneman).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Free State contingent that will be competing at the 2023 Coca-Cola Khaya Majola Cricket Week boasts a core group of six veterans who took part in the event last year. Watch all the games live on SuperSport Schools &#8211; Register now Samokelo Lepheto, Sicelo Matayi and Johnathan Muller are the three players from Grey [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":30082,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30381","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\/30381","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}