{"id":87001,"date":"2025-11-29T07:03:26","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T05:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=87001"},"modified":"2025-11-29T07:03:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T05:03:26","slug":"mpumalanga-to-host-csa-boys-national-u17-rural-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=87001","title":{"rendered":"Mpumalanga to host CSA Boys National u17 Rural Week"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"CSA
Photo: Cricket South Africa.<\/strong><\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The CSA<\/strong> Boys National u17 Rural Week<\/strong> is nearing. It’s set to be hosted in Mpumalanga<\/strong>, from 5-8 December, with matches starting at 09:00 each day.<\/p>\n

Uplands College<\/strong> (White River), Penryn College<\/strong> (Mbombela) and Rob Ferreira High<\/strong> (White River) will all be providing two fields each, while the White River Country Club<\/strong> will have a standby field prepared in case one of the schools’ venues becomes unavailable.<\/p>\n

The event concludes on Monday, 8 December, with an awards’ ceremony being held that evening, where the batsman, bowler, all-rounder, and cricketer of the week awards will be presented.<\/p>\n

The event features 12 teams: Northern Cape<\/strong>, Boland<\/strong>, Border<\/strong>, Eastern Province<\/strong>, Free State<\/strong>, Limpopo<\/strong>, Mpumalanga<\/strong>, Gauteng<\/strong>, Border Kei<\/strong>, KZN Coastal<\/strong>, KZN Inland<\/strong>, and North West<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

They’ll be divided into four pools of three each. For the first three days of the event, the teams will play 50-overs-a-side matches, which means there will also be games played between sides from different pools.<\/p>\n

After each team has played three matches, semi-finals will be played between the top finishers from Pools A and C, and Pools B and D.<\/p>\n

The same format will apply for the Plate and Shield semi-finals, with the second-placed teams from each pool contesting the Plate and the third-place finishers playing for the Shield.<\/p>\n

All of the knockout matches will be played in the 20-over format.<\/p>\n

GROUPS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pool A – KZN Inland, Border Kei, Lions.
\nPool B – Northern Cape, Mpumalanga, North West.
\nPool C – Eastern Cape, Limpopo, Border.
\nPool D – Boland, Free State, KZN Coastal.<\/p>\n

FIXTURES
\n<\/strong>
\nFriday, 5 December<\/strong>
\nLions vs Border Kei, KZN Inland vs Boland, Mpumalanga vs North West, Northern Cape vs Eastern Province,\u00a0 Limpopo vs Border, Free State vs KZN Coastal.<\/p>\n

Saturday, 6 December<\/strong>
\nMpumalanga vs Northern Cape, Border Kei vs KZN Inland, Boland vs Free State, Eastern Province vs Limpopo, Lions vs North West, KZN Coastal vs Border.<\/p>\n

Sunday, 7 December<\/strong>
\nKZN Inland vs Lions, Northern Cape vs North West, Eastern Province vs Border, Boland vs KZN Coastal, Limpopo vs Border Kei, Free State vs Mpumalanga.<\/p>\n

The knockout 20-over matches will be played on Monday, 8 December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The CSA Boys National u17 Rural Week is nearing. It’s set to be hosted in Mpumalanga, from 5-8 December, with matches starting at 09:00 each day. Uplands College (White River), Penryn College (Mbombela) and Rob Ferreira High (White River) will all be providing two fields each, while the White River Country Club will have a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":87002,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87001","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\/87001","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/87002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}