St John’s 1st team cricketer earns his 100th cap
Alec Loveland is the 13th player to play for the 1st team 100 times or more since records have been kept, and he plans for this to be just the start of his career.
Earning his 100th cap for St John’s College 1st XI cricket team at St David’s Marist Inanda Fasken Time Cricket Festival, was Alec Loveland.
To start his career, Alec took three wickets in his first 1st team cricket match, back in the Michaelmas term of 2022, only in Lower IV at the time. One of his wickets was off his first ball. “If anything, that early success motivated me to work harder, and to be ready if I got another chance.”
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Progress wasn’t immediate. He was not selected for the team at the beginning of Upper IV, but he made the side later in the year, and has been a fixture ever since.
Now, on August 28, after receiving his 100th cap, he went one better than that opening game, taking four wickets against Nelspruit.
Looking back, Alec sees how much he has grown, as a player and as a person. “I was a bowler back then, but I like to think that now I’ve developed into an all-rounder.”
Alec also played 1st team hockey for the last two years, describing himself as an ‘an all-right student’, who is expecting several distinctions at the end of the year.
On the cricket front, the next step, he hopes, will be provincial selection in December. He has made provincial squads and teams at every level through the junior age groups, and now hopes to do the same in the seniors.
Alec is the 13th player to play for the 1st team 100 times or more since records have been kept. His achievement now places him among some of the school’s finest cricketers.
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