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St David’s Marist Inanda Prep Claims the Prep Stayers Title Tournament, While St John’s College Crowned Under-14 Champions at Inanda Water Polo Tournament. 

Redhill Raiders saved their best performance for the biggest occasion, powering to a 10-wicket victory over Temba Bavuma Tigers to win the 2026 St David’s ATBMI T10 Cricket Festival on Saturday, 24 October. 

The race for silverware intensified on Day Three of the Inanda Hoops Classic Challenge, as schools turned up the intensity in their pursuit of championship glory. With semi-finals delivering closely fought contests, impressive victories and plenty of competitive spirit, the tournament took another significant step towards its grand finale.

The 2026 St David’s ATBMI T10 Cricket Festival delivered an exciting day of action on Friday, 23 October, with Rivonia Rangers, Redhill Raiders and Temba Bavuma Tigers among the teams taking centre stage across the first three rounds.

Featuring Grade 6 cricketers and selected Grade 5 players, the tournament offers emerging young players an opportunity to test themselves in a competitive environment as they battle for top honours.

Sandton, 22 October 2026 - The Inanda Hoops Classic Challenge 2026 got underway on Thursday at St David’s Marist Inanda, with schools competing across the U12, U15 and U18 divisions as the four-day basketball tournament began. The opening day featured a full programme of fixtures, producing several decisive results alongside closely contested encounters.

The 2026 edition of the St David’s Marist Inanda Fasken Time Cricket Festival will be remembered for a long time for two reasons, one for superb batting and big scores and the other for the first time that rain interrupted the proceedings and robbed the teams of close to a day and a half of play.

The lost time meant that, in the end, only one result was possible in the 12 matches - and credit must go to the KES lower order batsmen who secured their win in rapidly deteriorating conditions late on the second day.

The trend of big innings continued on the 1st day of the second round of matches at the St David’s Marist Inanda Fasken Time Cricket Festival on Saturday, with two 200s; two 100s and 14 50s being notched up.

Pride of place goes to the two double centurions, both at Hoërskool Waterkloof: AJ de Villiers, who was 217 not out against Noordheuwel, and Juan Swart who got 206. De Villiers put on a display of power hitting and precision placement which saw him go to 200 in 180 balls and hit 35 fours.

For the 1st time in its nine-year history, play at the St David’s Marist Inanda Fasken Time Cricket Festival was stopped because of the weather on Friday.

The predicted icy wind picked up early in the day and it brought a thunderstorm, with lightning, at 10.30am, sending the players scurrying into pre-arranged shelter areas where they had to kick their heels until after lunch.

Day one of the ninth St David’s Marist Inanda Fasken Time Cricket Festival took place on Thursday and it was dominated by the batsmen.

That’s not a much of a surprise, given the flat pitches, lighting fast outfields and unseasonable hot weather on the Highveld over the last two weeks. There were no fewer than 15 half centuries scored on day one, some of them big ones, and several were undefeated with the batsmen set to carry on in the morning.

The ninth St David’s Marist Inanda Fasken Time Cricket festival began in the customary way on Thursday with everyone meeting for breakfast in the school hall, before the teams dispersed to begin the first of the two two-day matches that they will be playing over the next four days. It’s become traditional to invite a guest speaker to address the boys at the event, and there have been some big names in cricket doing that down the years. Temba Bavuma has been here, as has Jacques Rudolph and Heinrich Klaasen.This year it was one of South Africa’s very best - Kagiso Rabada.