{"id":3160,"date":"2023-12-01T08:55:09","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T06:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cricket.supersportschools.com\/?p=3160"},"modified":"2023-12-01T08:55:09","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T06:55:09","slug":"ihlobo-festival-takes-up-permanent-residence-at-kearsney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=3160","title":{"rendered":"iHlobo Festival takes up permanent residence at Kearsney"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Kearsney College<\/strong>, in Botha’s Hill, hosts preseason cricket in early January, with four schools from KZN, two from Zimbabwe, and one each from Mpumalanga and Gauteng, participating in the iHlobo Cricket Festival<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Previously, the event had been hosted at various venues around South Africa, but in recent years Cape schools withdrew due to rising travel costs. The result was Kearsney and Michaelhouse<\/strong> taking over as co-hosts.<\/p>\n

At the start of 2023, Michaelhouse hosted the event. It has since been agreed that Kearsney College will become the permanent home of the annual festival.<\/p>\n

Local schools joining Kearsney include Clifton College<\/strong>, Michaelhouse and DHS<\/strong>. St Alban’s College<\/strong> makes the journey from Pretoria, while Uplands College<\/strong> takes the long road from White River. Two of Zimbabwe’s best, St John’s<\/strong> College<\/strong> (Harare) and Falcon College<\/strong> (Bulawayo), cross the border to test their skills.<\/p>\n

Kearsney will host all the matches, with the action starting on Monday, 8 January, and finishing on Thursday, 11 January.<\/p>\n

The format for the festival is declaration cricket on day one, followed by 50 overs on day two. All schools will play two T20s on the third day, with the event wrapping up with a single T20 on the last day.<\/p>\n

FIXTURES<\/strong><\/p>\n

Monday, 8 January (Declaration)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kearsney vs St John’s, Matterson
\nClifton vs St Alban’s, Osler
\nDHS vs Michaelhouse, AH Smith
\nUplands vs Falcon, Silcock<\/p>\n

Tuesday, 9 January (50-over)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kearsney vs St Alban’s, AH Smith
\nClifton vs Uplands, Matterson
\nSt John’s vs Michaelhouse, Silcock
\nDHS vs Falcon, Osler<\/p>\n

Wednesday, 10 January (T20)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Clifton vs Falcon, AH Smith
\nKearsney vs Michaelhouse, Matterson
\nSt John’s vs Uplands, Osler
\nDHS vs St Alban’s, Silcock<\/p>\n

Wednesday, 10 January (T20)<\/strong><\/p>\n

St John’s vs St Alban’s, AH Smith
\nDHS vs Uplands, Matterson
\nKearsney vs Falcon, Osler
\nClifton vs Michaelhouse, Silcock<\/p>\n

Thursday, 11 January (T20)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kearsney vs Clifton, AH Smith
\nFalcon vs Michaelhouse, Matterson
\nSt Alban’s vs Uplands, Osler
\nDHS vs St John’s, Silcock<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kearsney College, in Botha’s Hill, hosts preseason cricket in early January, with four schools from KZN, two from Zimbabwe, and one each from Mpumalanga and Gauteng, participating in the iHlobo Cricket Festival. Previously, the event had been hosted at various venues around South Africa, but in recent years Cape schools withdrew due to rising travel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":3164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3160","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\/3160","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}