{"id":83001,"date":"2025-09-17T08:40:37","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T06:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=83001"},"modified":"2025-09-17T08:40:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T06:40:37","slug":"new-look-wildeklawer-t20-announces-five-new-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=83001","title":{"rendered":"New-look Wildeklawer T20 announces five new teams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-59301\" src=\"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/North-South-tournamnet-1-400x326.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"326\" \/>One of South Africa&#8217;s top T20 tournaments at schoolboy level, the erstwhile Westvaal Noord\/Suid Tournament will from this year be known as the <strong>Wildeklawer T20<\/strong> tournament, after Wildeklawer was announced as the new main sponsor of the prestigious event.<\/p>\n<p>Read and follow all the <strong>Wildeklawer T20<\/strong> action live on\u00a0<strong>SuperSport Schools &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/supersportschools\">(www.supersportschools.com)<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Along with the lead sponsorship change, no fewer than five new teams will be in action this year.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament takes place from 16 to 19 October, in the batting-friendly conditions of Pretoria, with <strong>Afrikaanse Ho\u00ebr Seunskool <em>(Affies)<\/em><\/strong>, <strong>Ho\u00ebrskool Waterkloof<\/strong> and <strong>Die Ho\u00ebrskool Menlopark<\/strong> playing host to 13 teams from across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Affies, the defending champions, who beat <strong>Grey College<\/strong> in the final last year, are in Group A, where they will face <strong>Jeppe High School<\/strong> <strong>for Boys<\/strong> and <strong>Grey High School<\/strong>, from Gqeberha. Each group features at least one newcomer, with the <strong>CSA Hub Invitational XI<\/strong> being the new face in the group.<\/p>\n<p>The Hub side, which replaces <strong>Ho\u00ebrskool Centurion<\/strong>, consists of the best up-and-coming talent from all Hubs across South Africa, and it has the makings of being a formidable force. Their excellence was underlined when they went unbeaten at the <strong>2024 Oppenheimer Michaelmas Week <\/strong>in KwaZulu-Natal.<\/p>\n<p>In Group B, <strong>Deon Botes<\/strong>, Affies&#8217; former Director of Cricket, and his highly talented <strong>Paul Roos Gimnasium<\/strong> side replaces SACS in the lineup. They will be up against Grey College, Die Ho\u00ebrskool Menlopark, and <strong>Northwood<\/strong>. It&#8217;s a wide open a group that is hard to call.<\/p>\n<p>Group C includes two newcomers, including a formidable <strong>Durban High School (DHS) <\/strong>team that has been in fine form, and recently added the <strong>Eston One Insurance T20 Night League title<\/strong> to the <a href=\"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/durban-high-school-are-back-to-back-clifton-t20-champions\/\"><strong>Clifton T20 title<\/strong> <\/a>they won earlier in the year. Their addition brings the number of KZN sides up to three, with <strong>Paarl Boys&#8217; High<\/strong>, from the Western Cape, not in action this year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>King Edward VII School (KES)<\/strong>, meanwhile, takes over from <strong>St Stithians College <\/strong>&#8211; one Johannesburg school replacing another.<\/p>\n<p>DHS and KES will battle it out against <strong>St Andrew&#8217;s School<\/strong>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/st-andrews-does-it-again\/\"><strong>regional Schools SA20<\/strong> <strong>champions<\/strong><\/a> of the Free State, Northern Cape and North West, and <strong>Wynberg Boys&#8217; High<\/strong>, from the southern suburbs of Cape Town.<\/p>\n<p>Group D, it appears, is 2025&#8217;s Group of Death. Four high-quality teams, all with potential match-winners in their ranks, makes for an intriguing lineup, but two very good sides are going to miss out on the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n<p>The two-time champions, <strong>Ho\u00ebrskool Waterkloof<\/strong>, take on the Western Cape powerhouse <strong>Rondebosch Boys&#8217; High<\/strong>, the Schools SA20 national runners-up, <strong>St David&#8217;s Marist Inanda<\/strong>, and <strong>Westville Boys&#8217; High School<\/strong>, who <a href=\"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/sensational-simpson-steers-westville-to-w100-title\/\"><strong>claimed the KZN Coastal region&#8217;s W100 title for a fifth time in succession<\/strong><\/a> earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>GROUPS\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Group A<br \/>\n<\/strong>Afrikaanse Ho\u00ebr Seunskool<br \/>\nGrey High School<br \/>\nJeppe High School for Boys<br \/>\nCSA Hub Invitational XI<\/p>\n<p><strong>Group B\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nDie Ho\u00ebrskool Menlopark<br \/>\nPaul Roos Gimnasium<br \/>\nGrey College<br \/>\nNorthwood<\/p>\n<p><strong>Group C<br \/>\n<\/strong>St Andrew&#8217;s School<br \/>\nWynberg Boys&#8217; High School<br \/>\nKing Edward VII School<br \/>\nDurban High School<\/p>\n<p><strong>Group D<br \/>\n<\/strong>Waterkloof<br \/>\nRondebosch Boys&#8217; High School<br \/>\nSt David&#8217;s Marist Inanda<br \/>\nWesville Boys&#8217; High School<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of South Africa&#8217;s top T20 tournaments at schoolboy level, the erstwhile Westvaal Noord\/Suid Tournament will from this year be known as the Wildeklawer T20 tournament, after Wildeklawer was announced as the new main sponsor of the prestigious event. Read and follow all the Wildeklawer T20 action live on\u00a0SuperSport Schools &#8211; (www.supersportschools.com)\u00a0 Along with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":59301,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83001","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\/83001","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/59301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}