In a very competitive tournament six schools and one cricket academy team faced one another at the fifth u/14 T20 Cricket. It was held at Penryn College and began on Sunday.

Penryn, Hoërskool Bergvlam, Hoërskool Nelspruit (NHS), Hoërskool Randburg, Hoërskool Garsfontein, JR Academy and St Duncan’s Invitational participated in this thrilling competition.

The tournament started off with a super over competition on Sunday in which Randburg won by beating Garsfontein in the final.

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All teams played their first T20 games on Monday. According to Xolani Grootboom, head of college sport at Penryn, the results on that day speak for themselves.

On Tuesday, they played to qualify for the semi-finals. NHS, Randburg, JR Academy and Garsfontein made it through.

In the semis, NHS won by 41 runs when they played JR Academy. NHS scored 149/5 in 20 overs and JR Academy 108/8 in 20 overs. In the second semis match, Randburg beat Garsfontein by eight wickets. They got 70/2 in 12 overs and Garsfontein 66/10 in 14 overs.

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The final match took place on Thursday with NHS and Randburg batting against each other. In the third and fourth play-off Garsfontein played JR Academy. Stephan Meyer from NHS said making it to the final is a major honour.

“The boys played good cricket this week and the experience they got from it will be valuable going into the season,” he said.

The hosting school, Penryn, did not go through to the semi-finals, but had two outstanding individual performances.

“Ryan Moffett was top scorer with 107 runs in the tournament. Khumo Mabula took nine wickets and was second overall leading wicket taker,” said Grootboom. Hoërskool Bergvlam did not make it to the finals.

According to Bergvlam’s Pieter Pretorius, one of the players made a mark. “Suhail Patel scored 62 runs from 50 balls,” he said.

The results of the final match will be available in the next publication.