Women in Sport - ICC 100% Future Leaders Programme

 

Women from all over the world are getting the opportunity to take up leadership roles in various sports including cricket. The ICC has announced it's mentorship program for women and we got the opportunity to talk to two of the women that have been selected from 300 applicants to take part in the program.

40 women from 29 ICC Member countries have been selected to be mentored as part of the ICC 100% Cricket Future Leaders Programme designed to support emerging female talent in cricket. The programme, which is part of the ICC’s long-term commitment to accelerate the growth of women’s cricket and women in cricket, received an overwhelming response of more than 300 applicants from 45 different countries.

The initial intake will be split into two batches and the programme, which designed to address the low percentage of women in leadership positions in global cricket and build a pipeline of new female leaders in cricket will get underway with batch one beginning this month.

About 100% Cricket Future Leaders Programme
The application is open for all female future leaders of Cricket to apply and will be matched with a mentor to support their development growth.
The role of a mentor is to unlock their mentee’s potential and help them to be at their best. This could include being a confidential sounding-board, providing advice, guidance, and connections to reach their potential.

The philosophy of the 100% Cricket - Future Leaders Programme is to be participant lead, with the ICC acting in support to match the mentees with suitable mentors and provide guidelines and evaluation frameworks for the participants and opportunities to network and interact.

The programme will last for a period of 6 months, and include a kick-off workshop with Belinda Clark, followed by monthly check-ins and a 3-month review with the mentees and mentors agreeing the frequency and method of communication.

SELECTION PROCESS
All mentee applications were reviewed by a selection panel consisting of the ICC General Manager – Marketing and Communications – Claire Furlong, Mentor Guide and former Australia Captain Belinda Clark AO, ICC General Manager Development, Will Glenwright, and Competition Manager – Cricket, Birmingham 2022 – Commonwealth Games Holly Colvin.

 

What is SuperSport Schools and how can it benefit your School?

 

There are many OTT packages out there including the new SuperSport Schools, what does this mean to schools and how can they benefit from them? What are the benefits of showing live school sport? How can you take advantage of it? How do you market on an OTT platform? Can your sponsors get coverage on SuperSport Schools? Who can you contact and what sports do they cover? SuperSport Schools exists to grow schools sport and get more sports stars to shine, across the African continent by broadcasting the full South African SCHOOLS SPORT story – from the beginning! Our vision is to extend this to encompass the African Continent. SuperSport Schools records and live-streams schools sport automatically – indoors and outdoors – so that parents and other interested parties can watch from anywhere LIVE, or any time ON-DEMAND and at NO COST to the viewer. If you want to listen to our webinars live register here https://bit.ly/3uWlr8g Video Editor Cyberlink this will help for content creation and video analysis for athletes: https://bit.ly/3ysQ5bR

Are schools able to return to playing sport? We talk to Bongani Zondi Deputy Director at the DBE

 

Bongani Zondi - Deputy Director: at Department of Basic Education in the Sport and Enrichment Directorate talks to coaches and administrators about the new government gazette that is going to come out in the near future. He talks about what schools can and cannot do, reporting structures that a school needs to follow before they are able to play again, PPE requirements and various other issues that schools face in returning to sport. Mr Zondi is responsible for coordination and management of sport and enrichment programmes in education. These include school sport, arts and culture programmes such as the choral programmes. Some of these programmes are performed in collaboration with the Department of Sport, Arts and Culture (DSAC) as well as with a variety of partners such as the Motsepe Foundation and Transnet.

Good Nutrition for good immunity - Dietitian Lila Bruk

 

Lila Bruk BSC in Molecular and Cell Biology (UCT) BSC Medical (Honours) in Nutrition and Dietetics (UCT) Masters in Nutritional Sciences (Stellenbosch) Manuka Translational Genomics EatFit FODMAP approved dietitian SAMLA Certificate in Foundations of Medico-Legal Practice National Nutrition and National Obesity Week 2020 - Speaker organized by DanUp with a focus on assisting coaches from all over the world with nutrition programs for their kids. "Good Nutrition for good immunity" She spoke about about nutrition and what children, coaches and parents can do to get a basic cost effective nutrition plan for kids. School sport around the world has changed overnight due to the coronavirus and has become more efficient and focused to allow all kids not matter their ability to express themselves the best that they can be on the sporting field. As a coach you need to stay ahead of the curve and keep yourself updated with all the new training tips and methodologies. We enable you to do this through our fortnightly webinars with a generic focus on sport.

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Good nutrition is key to unlocking the bodies potential and can have an impact on adult performance in the board room or on the sports field.

Good nutrition is key to unlocking the bodies potential

Good nutrition as a child can directly contribute to performance in the board room or on the sports field as an adult

South African corporates and government have been made aware of the alarming statistics that emerged in the recent HAKSA report (compiled by a number of South African universities) which identified that; one in five South African children skip breakfast, less than half consume the recommended intake of vegetables and fruit and their intake of key vitamins and minerals is less than 67% of what is recommended. This has a devastating effect on the growth (physical and mental) of our children and Danone launched their 2020 Day One campaign to coincide with the start of the 2020 school year.  This is now going national in a drive to improve the status quo by educating parents and caregivers on the benefits of good nutrition and how it impacts on the development of children, whether in the classroom or on the sportsfield.

Education is a global equaliser and everyone in a child’s life, be it an educator, parent or caregiver, plays a part in ensuring that South Africans can compete anywhere in the world, and this all starts from birth.  There is a window of opportunity (the first 1000 days) to ensure that children receive adequate nutrition to ensure that areas of growth and maturity are met at the right time to meet important milestones.

“Our Day One with Danone campaign is educational and empowers parents and children to make correct food choices to improve nutrition and wellbeing,” said Leanne Keizer, Scientific and Regulatory Affairs Manager, Danone Southern Africa. “A healthy eating plan, which means consuming the correct amounts of vitamins and minerals, is of paramount importance in every aspect of a child’s life including building strength, promoting physical fitness, giving energy for optimal concentration and brain development.  To compete globally, whether in the boardroom or on the sports field, South Africans must match their international counterparts thereby creating equal opportunities and, what many parents are not aware, this all starts with good nutrition in our first years.

Day One by Danone also demonstrates that healthy eating is affordable.  “There are five simple steps to healthy eating that we are promoting through our campaign,” said Keizer.  “Eat breakfast every day; eat more fruit and vegetables; have milk, maas or yoghurt every day; drink more water; and exercise. We teach kids these five steps through play so they will retain the information and it creates longevity. 2020 is of particular importance as it fits into our global One Planet One Health vision, which reflects our belief that the health of people and that of the planet are interlinked and both need to be protected and nurtured.”

“It’s an unfortunate fact that we only recognise the symptoms of bad eating when it is too late,” said Keizer. “Snacks form an important element of healthy eating and we encourage children to select a fruit instead of a sweet or packet of crisps.  Our NutriDay yoghurts, which are high in protein,  have been made with carefully selected added nutrients known to be lacking in the diets of South African children (Vitamins A, B, D, E) and are the only yoghurts in South Africa that are a source of Zinc, essential in building a healthy immune system, growth and cognitive development.  These additions fuel a child’s potential to thrive.  We cannot stress enough the importance of drinking water, eating vegetables and fruit and including milk, yoghurt or maas in a child’s diet.”

Exercise is key to good health.  “Our Danone Nations Cup, the biggest soccer tournament in the world for children between the ages of 10 and 12 years old, has enabled us to talk to over 40 million kids around the world since its inception in 2000.  We use the biggest sport in the world to promote the importance of exercise and encourage young athletes to ‘Play Football, Change the Game’, which is a rallying message to unite children, irrespective of their backgrounds and cultures, and to encourage them to become catalysts for positive change,” concluded Keizer.

To ensure continuity, Danone is constantly loading nutritional tips, advice and recipes onto the Danone website: www.danone.co.za to assist parents and caregivers.

Cricket South Africa’s Nursery of Excellence, the Khaya Majola Week, kicks off at Michaelhouse in KwaZulu-Natal

The 2019 Khaya Majola Cricket will be played in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands from December 16th to 20th. It will hosted by the KZN Inland Schools Cricket Union and based at Michaelhouse School in Balgowan.

This is the 26^th time the week is being staged since the unification of South African Cricket in 1994, although the tournament has been running, in various guises since 1940.

It has never been hosted by KZN Midlands before, although it has been in that part of the country before, most recently in 2013 when Kearsney College was the venue. That week will be remembered for the one at which Kagiso Rabada announced himself and, five years later he was the number one bowler in the world. South Africa won the 2014 ICC under-19 World Cup, with the majority of the players in their ranks, having appeared at the Khaya Majola Week the year before. Rabada was the undoubted star of the week, along with Aiden Markram who, ironically, did not play in the Khaya Majola Week.

That fact emphasizes 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.

That said, the record shows that the majority of Protea players in the various formats of the game who have been capped since 1994 played at the week and just about every one of the team currently in action against England appeared there.

In all 91 graduates of the week have gone on the represent the country including the most recent crop - Anrich Nortje, George Linde, Zubayr Hamza, Bjorn Fortuin, Senuran Muthusamy, Sinethemba Qeshile and Lutho Sipamla.

Whereas the majority of South African Schools players have come from a relatively small number of schools – the top three are Grey High School (24), Grey College (16) and King Edward VII School (15) – the picture is changing as Cricket South Africa’s efforts to transform the sport and provide opportunities to all players begin to bear fruit.

The talent development pipeline has been widened though the establishment of Regional Performance Centres (RPCs) and Development Hubs in rural areas and through the designation of schools where potential has been identified but who are struggling as CSA Focus Schools who receive assistance from the association.

Players emerging from those structures are being picked up by the mainstream cricketing schools and are being offered bursaries, and are being included in CSA’s talent acceleration programmes.

East London’s Hudson Park High School is a Focus School that is making an impact. Nine SA Schools players have come from the school since 2014, putting them 9^th on the list of schools producing SA Schools caps. Sinethemba Qeshile, selected for the Proteas T20 team in 2019, is a product of the school.

There are graduates of the talent acceleration programme in many of the teams who will be in action at Michaelhouse this year and, no doubt, many of them are destined for higher honours.

The games begin on Monday December 16th and continue until Friday the 20^th. On Saturday the 21^st the SA Schools team will play the SA Colts in a T20 game.

The full list of Proteas players who have come through the Khaya Majola Week since 1994 is:

1 Neil McKenzie, 2 Zander de Bruyn, 3 Mark Boucher, 4 Nantie Hayward, 5 Makhaya Ntini, 6 David Terbrugge, 7 Loots Bosman, 8 Victor Mpitsang, 9 Boeta Dippenaar, 10 Johan van der Wath, 11 Jacques Rudolph, 12 Mfuneko Ngam, 13 Justin Ontong, 14 Robin Peterson, 15 Jon Kent, 16 Albie Morkel, 17 Graeme Smith, 18 Johan Botha, 19 Monde Zondeki, 20 Ashwen Prince, 21 Thami Tsolekile, 22 Johan Louw, 23 Justin Kemp, 24 Alviro Petersen, 25 Garnett Kruger, 26 Andre Nel, 27 Dewald Pretorius, 28 Friedel De Wet, 29 Dale Steyn, 30 Hashim Amla, 31 JP Duminy, 32 AB de Villiers, 34 Morne Morkel, 35 Ryan McLaren, 36 Rory Kleinveldt, 37 Vernon Philander, 38 Morne Van Wyk, 39 Andrew Puttick, 40 Richard Levi, 41 Faf du Plessis, 42 Colin Ingram, 43 Roelof Van der Merwe, 44 Vaughn Van Jaarsveld, 45 Imraan Kahn, 46 Wayne Parnell, 47 Rusty Theron, 48 Lonwabo Tsotsobe, 49 David Miller, 50 Dean Elgar, 51 Kyle Abbott, 52 Quinton de Kock, 53 Henry Davids, 54 Marchant de Lange, 55 Aaron Phangiso, 56 Farhaan Berhadien, 57 Dewald Pretorius, 58 Stiaan Van Zyl, 59 Dane Piedt, 60 Bueran Hendricks, 61 Rilee Rossouw, 62 Simon Harmer, 63 David Wiese, 64 Mthokozi Shezi, 65 Reeza Hendricks, 66 Kagiso Rabada, 67 Dane Villas, 68 Temba Bavuma, 69 Eddie Leie, 70 Chris Morris, 71 Tabriaz Shamsi, 72 Andile Phuhlukwayo, 73 Keshav Maharaj, 74 Dwaune Pretorius, 75 Heino Kuhn, 76 Dane Paterson, 77 Duanne Olivier, 78 Magasilo Moshele, 79 Jon Jon Smuts, 80 Lungi Ngidi, 81 Theunis de Bruyn, 82 Wiaan Mulder, 83 Khaya Zondo, 84 Gihahn Cloete, 85 Rassie Van Dussen, 86 Anrich Nortje, 87 George Linde, 88 Zubayr Hamza, 89 Bjorn Fortuin, 90 Senuran Muthusamy, 91 Sinethemba Qeshile, 92 Lutho Sipamla.

2019/2020 Khaya Majola Cricket Week Fixtures

The fixtures and format for the 2019/20 Khaya Majola Cricket Week

Day 1 & Day 2: Time Cricket

Day 3: 2 rounds of 20/20 over games

Day 4 & Day 5: 50 Overs will only be decided after the end of the previous days play. The teams will be matched up like for like

Day 1 – 16 December Time Cricket

TEAM 1		TEAM 2	VENUE
Gauteng	vs	Free State	Hart-Davis Oval (Hilton)
KwaZulu-Natal	vs	Western Province	St Charles College Oval
Northerns	vs	KZN Inland	Pietermaritzburg Oval
Eastern Province	vs	Boland	Gaythorne Oval (MHS)
Easterns	vs	Mpumalanga	Patterson Oval (Weston)
SWD	vs	Northern Cape	Weightman Smith (Hilton)
Border	vs	Limpopo	Hannahs (MHS)
Namibia	vs	North West	Meadows (MHS)

Day 2 – 17 December Time Cricket

TEAM 1		TEAM 2	VENUE
Gauteng	vs	KZN Inland	Gaythorne Oval (MHS)
KwaZulu-Natal	vs	Boland	Pietermaritzburg Oval
Northerns	vs	Western Province	St Charles College Oval
Free State	vs	Eastern Province	Hart-Davis Oval (Hilton)
Easterns	vs	Northern Cape	Meadows (MHS)
SDW	vs	Limpopo	Patterson Oval (Weston)
Border	vs	North West	Hannahs (MHS)
Namibia	vs	Mpumalanga	Weightman Smith (Hilton)

Day 3 – 18 December T20 Round 1

TEAM 1		TEAM 2	VENUE
Gauteng	vs	Easterns	Meadows (MHS)
KwaZulu-Natal	vs	SWD	Gaythorne Oval (MHS)
Free State	vs	Mpumalanga	Patterson Oval (Weston)
KZN Inland	vs	Northern Cape	Hannahs (MHS)
Northerns	vs	Border	Pietermaritzburg Oval
Eastern Province	vs	Namibia	Hart-Davis Oval (Hilton)
Western Province	vs	Limpopo	St Charles College Oval
Boland	vs	North West	Weightman Smith (Hilton)

Day 3 – 18 December T20 Round 2

TEAM 1		TEAM 2	VENUE
Gauteng	vs	Mpumalanga	Patterson Oval (Weston)
KwaZulu-Natal	vs	Northern Cape	Hannahs (MHS)
Free State	vs	Easterns	Meadows Oval (MHS)
KZN Inland	vs	SWD	Gaythorne Oval (MHS)
Northerns	vs	Limpopo	St Charles College Oval
Eastern Province	vs	North West	Hart-Davis Oval (Hilton)
Western Province	vs	Border	Pietermaritzburg Oval
Boland	vs	Namibia	Weightman Smith (Hilton)