Coca-Cola Schools T20 School Profile: Prestige College: Inland Focus School

History in the tournament

-        This is the second time that Prestige College has qualified for the Coca-Cola Schools T20 Challenge National Finals.

 Road to the National Finals

-        Prestige College were knocked out by St Albans early in qualifying for the tournament.

-        Prestige went on to qualify via the Cricket South Africa focus school qualification route.

-        Prestige College played against Soshanguwe Hub and hit 210 runs in 20 overs. Polite Shingange scores 54. Prestige bowled them out for 101.

-        Prestige played against Queens High School and they batted first. They only scored 90/9 with Polite Shingange scoring 33. They defended the score by bowling Queens out for 65 runs Tumelo Banda took 3 wickets.

-        In the Inland Focus School final they played against St Dominics College. Prestige batted first and scored 139/6. Koos Motahatsi scoring 38. They bowled out St Dominics out for 74, Kagiso Ngwenya taking 4/11.

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Potential Heroes

-        Polite Shingange is a good opening batsman that is the backbone of the Prestige batting line-up. He often bats for long periods of time allowing the rest of the team to bat quickly around him. He played in the U17 provincial week.

-        Tumelo Banda is a young all-rounder in the team. He takes a lot of wickets for the teams and when he bats he scores quickly. He played in the Provincial U15 week last year.

-        Kagiso Ngwanya is one of the new players in the team. He is a young fast bowlers and he played in the Provincial U15 week last year.

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Prospects for the Coca-Cola T20 Schools Challenge National Finals

-        The team has learned a lot since their debut in last year’s Coca-Cola Schools T20 Challenge in Stellenbosch, the boys have a lot more confidence and they are ready for the challenge.

-        One of the aspects of our game that has improved a lot is our fielding. We create a lot of pressure in the field and that give our bowlers the opportunity to take wickets.

-        The strength in our team is that we can post a total and defend it.

-        They are in a very tough group so their first focus is to win 2 games and then take it from there.

Proteas Players

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