The last time the Coca-Cola Khaya
Majola Week was held at Kearsney College, in 1994, there was a scrawny
red-headed fast bowler in the Eastern Province side who got the people talking
with his raw pace and aggression.
His name was Mornanteu (Nanti)
Hayward and, despite taking a heap of wickets, including a hat-trick in one of
the games, he never made the SA Schools side that year. He had to wait one year
for that honour – 1995 in East London – where he was the top wicket-taker at
the week, and his opening partner in that SA School team was none other than
Makhaya Ntini, and the wicket keeper was Mark Boucher. Also in the team was
Boeta Dippenaar.
Hayward is back at Kearsney this
week in his role as a specialist bowling coach who has several of his protégés
in the EP schools team.
“I went into coaching to pass on
the knowledge of my experience,” he says. “I especially want to help young
players to make different choices to the ones I occasionally made and which did
not do me much good.”
Among his charges in the EP side
is young Bradley Bopp who he describes as very promising. “He works hard and is
focused, he says. He is very fit and never holds back. He clearly wants to be
professional cricketer one day and I see it as my role to give him the tools
and skills to make that possible.”
Hayward believes the modern school
players have more opportunities. “The coaching is far better, than in my day. I
found, for example, that I was holding the ball all wrong only when I started
playing 1st class cricket for EP.”
He has fond memories of the Coke
weeks that he played in. “In 1994, I remember that we tied with a very strong
Gauteng team and I will always remember the hat trick that I took against
Northerns that year.”
He believes the Coca-Cola Khaya
Majola Week is a great cricketing institution.
“The partnership between Coca-Cola
and Cricket South Africa has been going on for so many years and it has
provided a showcase for talented players to show what they are worth,” he says.
“In my case, I was all raw talent, with very little technique, but I was able
to take wickets at the week, which was noticed and I was taken into the EP
setup where, with lots of help, I progressed to play for South Africa five
years later.
“These days the franchises are all
here and the top players have already been identified. This week makes a
massive contribution to that.”
Morning T20 Scores
Free State vs Boland
Free State 25/4 (Botha 3/8) game abandoned
Limpopo vs Border
Limpopo 27/2 (Sigwili 2/9) game abandoned
Mpumalanga vs Eastern Province
Mpumalanga 122/6 in 20 overs (Griesel 39*Carlisle 23,
Manjezi 3/9) game abandoned
Easterns vs Northerns
Easterns 122/7 in 20 overs (Germishuizen 67, Rasemene 2/6)
game abandoned
KZN Inland vs Griqualand West
KZN Inland 51/0 (Mahmoud 27*, van Wymeersch 16*) game
abandoned
KZN Coastal vs SWD
KZN Coastal 74/6 (Naidoo 22*, Phehlukwayo 21*,
Oberholzer 3/3) game abandoned
Western province vs North West
Western Province 26/0 (Fortuin 16*) game abandoned
Gauteng vs Namibia
Namibia 29/2 (Kruger 23*) game abandoned
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