Top teams set for Cape Schools Festival
The 2025 Cape Schools Festival begins on Saturday, 4 October and ends on Tuesday, 7 October, with 12 schools from the Western Cape, Eastern Cape, and Free State set to play four games each.
The first two days will be played under a one-day, two-innings format, in which 120 overs are played over the whole day. Days three and four will be standard 50-over fixtures.
With the Oppenheimer Michaelmas Week taking place over the same four-day period at Maritzburg College, many of the top sides are also using the festivals to prepare for the Wildeklawer T20, which takes place in Pretoria from 16 to 19 October, and brings together many of the top teams from throughout South Africa.
The Cape Schools Festival matches will be hosted in the southern suburbs by the national Schools SA20 champions, Bishops Diocesan College, Rondebosch Boys’ High, Wynberg Boys’ High, and SACS.
Those are four very tough teams, and playing at home will only make them a tougher challenger for visiting sides.
There are seven representatives from the Eastern Cape, made up of Grey High, Union High, Queen’s College, St Andrew’s College, Selborne College, Dale College and Graeme College.
Back in January, Grey High made it through to the final of the Eastern Province-Border regional Schools SA20 but lost out to Pearson High for the title. With a rich cricket history, they are always a team on which to keep an eye.
Watch out, too, for St Andrew’s College, they’ve been on song and comfortably beat their Makhanda rivals, Kingswood College last weekend.
The Free State, Northern Cape, and North West SA20 champions, St. Andrew’s School, who have been in good early season form, is the lone Free State side competing at the festival.
FIXTURES
Saturday, 4 October (One-day, two-innings – 120 overs of play)
Bishops vs Grey High – Frank Reid Oval, SACS
Rondebosch vs Queen’s College – Cricket A Oval, Rondebosch
Wynberg vs St. Andrew’s College – Jacques Kallis Oval, Wynberg
Union High vs Selborne College – Silverhurst A, Wynberg
SACS vs St. Andrew’s School – De Villiers Oval, SACS
Graeme College vs Dale College – Meadow A Oval, Rondebosch
Day 2 – Sunday, 5 October (One-day, two- innings – 120 overs of play)
Bishops vs Dale College – Frank Reid Oval, Bishops
Rondebosch vs St. Andrew’s College – Cricket A Oval, Rondebosch
Wynberg vs Graeme College – Jacques Kallis Oval, Wynberg
Grey High vs Queen’s College – Silverhurst A Oval, Wynberg
SACS vs Union High – De Villiers Oval, SACS
St. Andrew’s School vs Selborne College – Meadow A Oval, Rondebosch
Day 3 – Monday, 6 October (50 overs)
Bishops vs St. Andrew’s College – Frank Reid Oval, Bishops
Rondebosch vs Grey High – Cricket A Oval, Rondebosch
Wynberg vs Union High – Jacques Kallis Oval, Wynberg
St. Andrew’s School vs Dale College – Silverhurst A, Wynberg
SACS vs Selborne College – De Villiers Oval, SACS
Graeme College vs Queen’s College – Meadow A Oval, Rondebosch
Day 4 – Tuesday, 7 October (50 overs)
Bishops vs Graeme College – Frank Reid Oval, Bishops
Rondebosch vs Selborne College – Cricket A Oval, Rondebosch
Wynberg vs St. Andrew’s School – Jacques Kallis Oval, Wynberg
Union High vs St. Andrew’s College – Silverhurst A, Wynberg
SACS vs Grey High – De Villiers Oval, SACS
Dale College vs Queen’s College – Meadow A Oval, Rondebosch
