{"id":586,"date":"2022-12-19T10:17:16","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T08:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cricket.supersportschools.com\/?p=586"},"modified":"2022-12-19T10:17:16","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T08:17:16","slug":"wynberg-boys-high-complete-unique-double-with-sa-schools-cricket-and-rugby-captains-in-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=586","title":{"rendered":"Wynberg Boys&#8217; High completes unique double with SA Schools&#8217; cricket and rugby captains in 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-587\" src=\"https:\/\/cricket.supersportschools.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Wynberg-SA-Schools-Captains-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"377\" height=\"249\" \/>A pretty unique occurrence happened this year with both the SA Schools&#8217; captains for cricket and rugby hailed from the same school, <strong>Wynberg Boys&#8217; High<\/strong> in Cape Town.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Juan James<\/strong> was named the SA Schools&#8217; cricket captain of 2022 at the conclusion of the annual <strong>Khaya Majola Week<\/strong> in Stellenbosch.<\/p>\n<p>His classmate <strong>Zachary Porthen<\/strong> captained Western Province to unofficial champions of the <strong>Craven Week<\/strong> earlier this year in Cape Town. Porthen was also named the SA Schools&#8217; rugby captain becoming the first player ever from Wynberg who had this honour.<\/p>\n<p>James is also the first player from Wynberg Boys&#8217; High to captain the national school&#8217;s cricket side.<\/p>\n<p>It is only the third time in history that pupils from the same school were named captain of the two sports in the same year.<\/p>\n<p>The previous time this happened was in 1989 when two boys from <strong>Diocesan College<\/strong> (Bishops) had the honour of leading the national sides. <strong>Ian Solomon<\/strong> (cricket) and <strong>Michael Ehrentraut<\/strong> (rugby) were the players from Bishops who made their school proud.<\/p>\n<p>The first time it happened was in 1980 when <strong>Joubert Strydom<\/strong> (cricket) and<strong> Jurie Erwee<\/strong> (rugby) of Grey College in Bloemfontein were named SA Schools&#8217; captains.<\/p>\n<p>The South African Schools&#8217; cricket side was first chosen in 1940 after the inaugural Nuffield Week (later became Khaya Majola Week). The first SA Schools&#8217; rugby team was only chosen in 1974.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For the complete lists of SA Schools&#8217; captains visit the following pages on our site:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cricket.supersportschools.com\/south-african-schools-captains\/\">SA Schools&#8217; Cricket Captains (1940-2022)<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/schoolofrugby.co.za\/sa-schools-captains\/\">SA Schools&#8217; Rugby Captains (1974-2022<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pretty unique occurrence happened this year with both the SA Schools&#8217; captains for cricket and rugby hailed from the same school, Wynberg Boys&#8217; High in Cape Town. Juan James was named the SA Schools&#8217; cricket captain of 2022 at the conclusion of the annual Khaya Majola Week in Stellenbosch. His classmate Zachary Porthen captained [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29975,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-586","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\/586","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}