First XI Cricket: The Final Top 60 Rankings for 2018

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The 2018 First XI Cricket season has finally come to its conclusion, the final ball bowled, caps tipped and handshakes all round.

It has once again been a season of high quality with the traditionally strong sides enjoying most of the limelight as testified by their high placing on the First XI Top 60 Rankings for 2018.

Hilton College with little question take the honors as the top team in South Africa after completing a highly dominant season which saw them generally score heavily and win convincingly. However even the greats are at times shown up and it was a powerful KES team who executed a stunning win over Hilton College in what was one of their finest matches of the year. Yet the likes of Mike Sclanders and James Richie played superbly during the year and more than often provided a solid foundation at the top of the batting order for Hilton College.

Rondebosch are solid in second spot on the table and gave evidence that they are a powerful side which was underlined by their highly successful tour of the UK where they had several forceful victories over the likes of Eton College, Cheltenham and Harrow. Perhaps their loss in October to SACS was not part of the script and could have nudged them higher up the table but such is cricket. Justin Broad was a force with the bat for Bosch reaching three figures several times in the season and Guy Sheena spun his web of mystery more times than not to really provide a balanced attack that few teams could master.

KES settle for third place on the rankings and as mentioned their 6 wicket win over Hilton College will certainly be one of their highlights of 2018. Bryce Parsons has been a classy allrounder for a couple of seasons now and showed his ability once again in 2018. The determined innings from the youngster Callum Broodryk against Hilton College showed signs that KES certainly have depth and no doubt the U15 run machine Zack Momberg will make his mark in the First XI in 2019 to further boost the KES fortunes.

Well done to all the players, coaches, umpires and supporters of school cricket for helping to provide yet another great school cricket season. We look forward to seeing next year’s First XI’s in action in 2019.

FIRST XI CRICKET RANKINGS 27 November, 2018
RANK TEAM PLAYED AVG BONUS POINTS
1 HILTON COLLEGE 29 10.50
2 RONDEBOSCH 48 10.15
3 KES 32 9.06
4 GREY HIGH SCHOOL 35 8.67
5 MARITIZBURG COLLEGE 20 8.56
6 GREY COLLEGE 31 8.54
7 JEPPE 22 8.39
8 ST ANDREWS SCHOOL 29 7.96
9 AFFIES 29 7.64
10 SELBORNE COLLEGE 25 7.60
11 MENLOPARK 27 7.55
12 SACS 32 7.26
13 CLIFTON 27 7.20
14 WATERKLOOF 40 7.13
15 ST STITHIANS 34 6.79
16 PAUL ROOS GYM 35 6.67
17 PRETORIA BOYS HIGH 29 6.63
18 NOORDHEUWEL 34 6.49
19 WOODRIDGE 13 6.39
20 GLENWOOD 28 6.35
21 ST BENEDICTS 18 6.22
22 KEARSNEY COLLEGE 25 6.15
23 PAARL GIM 24 6.15
24 CENTURION 24 6.13
25 ST CHARLES COLLEGE 20 6.12
26 NORTHWOOD 32 5.92
27 ST ANDREWS COLLEGE 29 5.87
28 WYNBERG 39 5.85
29 MICHAELHOUSE 20 5.82
30 POTCH VOLKIES 27 5.77
31 ST DAVIDS 23 5.63
32 NELSPRUIT 14 5.63
33 GARSFONTEIN 17 5.54
34 HANS MOORE 36 5.49
35 MARAIS VILJOEN 35 5.44
36 ST JOHNS COLLEGE 24 5.35
37 GRAEME COLLEGE 29 5.31
38 HUDSON PARK 24 5.30
39 ST ALBANS COLLEGE 36 5.06
40 WESTVILLE 26 4.97
41 BISHOPS 38 4.89
42 MONUMENT 23 4.79
43 PIETERSBURG 10 4.75
44 PAARL BOYS HIGH 20 4.63
45 RUSTENBURG 18 4.12
46 PINELANDS 9 4.07
47 MONTANA 19 3.94
48 KINGSWOOD 12 3.88
49 MIDSTREAM 9 3.73
50 HELPMEKAAR 18 3.73
51 PEARSON 13 3.66
52 SOMERSET COLLEGE 15 3.58
53 FRAMESBY 14 3.31
54 CAMBRIDGE 20 3.28
55 BEN VORSTER 10 3.11
56 DHS 18 3.02
57 QUEENS COLLEGE 10 2.93
58 BOLAND LANDBOU 10 2.79
59 NORTHCLIFF 9 2.68
60 UPLANDS 9 2.64
61 DINAMIKA 10 1.35
62 NOORD KAAP 14 1.09