Majola Cricket Week a nursery for stars
The 2019 Coca-Cola Khaya Majola Cricket Week played in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands will end on December 20.
The match is hosted by the KZN Inland Schools Cricket Union and is the 26th time the week is being staged since the unification of South African Cricket in 1994. This is besides the fact that the tournament has been running in various guises since 1940.
This week will be remembered for the one at which Kagiso Rabada made his entry and, five years later he was the number one bowler in the world. South Africa won the 2014 ICC u-19 World Cup, with the majority of the players in their ranks having appeared at the Khaya Majola Week the year before.
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Rabada was the undoubted star of the week, along with Aiden Markram, who did not play in the Khaya Majola Week. The matches emphasises the importance of the Khaya Majola Week as a nursery of international cricketers while making the important point that missing selection at this level is not the end of the world for a young cricketer.
All 91 graduates of the week have gone on to represent the country, including the most recent crop – Anrich Nortje, George Linde, Zubayr Hamza, Bjorn Fortuin, Senuran Muthusamy, Sinethemba Qeshile and Lutho Sipamla.
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