St Stithians Boys College has become a great place to “sharpen your cricketing sword”. 

We are extremely blessed to have world class facility that includes 7 turf pitches, 17 astro nets, 12 turf nets and five bowling machines. As Director of Cricket I have been privileged to build on the cricket foundation laid by Mr Geoff Holmes and Mr Denzel Wilson. Our philosophy of playing more games than most is bearing fruit. The middle (match conditions) still remains the best place to learn and improve the understanding of young cricketers.

Some highlights of the last couple of years include:

Johnny Waite champions six times in the last 8 years. (2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020)

CSA National T20 champions four times (2014, 2016, 2017, 2019)

St Stithians once again received the CSA highest school qualification that of Blue Chip status. This is awarded for cricketing excellence in selected schools. Schools are judged through the schools cricket index on the number of teams, total matches played, coaches qualifications, facilities and representation in provincial/national teams.

The Following Old Boy cricketers currently play First Class cricket.

Nathan Gilchrist, Yassar Cook, Cameron Shekleton.

We are very proud of our four cricketers who played in the ICC T20 World Cup. Kagiso Rabada ( Proteas), Wiaan Mulder ( Proteas), Brandon Glover ( Netherlands), Curtis Campher (Ireland). Another bit of great cricket news is that Kwena Maphaka has been included in a 20 man squad to participate in the ICC U/19 World Cup. Congratulations Kwena holding thumbs for lots of wickets in the Caribbean.

WIM JANSEN

DIRECTOR OF CRICKET