LEFT ARM OVER
Thank old enemy Australia, not Cricket SA, for helping to unearth township diamonds
What a difference it might make to those trying to make a difference if they were offered Cricket SA or national support, writes Neil Manthorp
It’s not every day that a group of black teenage sportsmen are put through their paces at a private and elite Cape Town gym, especially not young men from Khayelitsha more accustomed to playing improvised sport on a dusty piece of ground. But after displaying exceptional determination and talent at the sport they love, and thanks to the generosity of a special donor, they recently received their first new kit and have been enrolled in a series of coaching courses. The project is an off-shoot of the Cricket School of Excellence, started, humbly, 17 years ago by former Western Province player Ryan Maron. Apart from his own practice, he has found time to consult and assist the Afghanistan national team and the Dolphins in recent years. Maron has graduated thousands of (paying) boys and girls from his school over the last decade-and-a-half and started putting back some of the profits 11 years ago with his first venture into the vast potential of Khayelitsha and other townships in the Ca...
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