Cricket

Overview

Grey High School has a rich cricketing tradition, dating back to the first game in 1861. Many great cricketers have since started their cricketing careers at the Grey. We continue to pride ourselves on achieving a balance between mass participation and excellence.

The fixture list includes matches against: Grey College, St Andrews College, Selborne, Bishops, Wynberg, Rondebosch, SACS and Paul Roos, amongst others. The 1st XI play in Cape Schools Week, 2nd XI in Cape Youth Week, U15A in their own festival and U14A in the Charl Van Rooyen festival. The 1st XI have also recently competed and won the North South T20 tournament and 2nd and U15A travelled to Paarl for a festival each January. We are also are proud to have 14 teams participating in the EP School's Leagues and many of our top players gaining selection for Provincial and National teams.

Grey Cricket 2026

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Grey High Cricket Goals

• Maintain and improve our fixtures, including an indoor facility.

• Player profiling of our top players.

• Full Winter Programme improving player skill sets.

• Coach Education – continued development of all coaches.

History

"Cricket played in true Sporting Tradition"

Grey High has a rich cricketing tradition, dating back to the first game in 1861. This report was found in Herald, Port Elizabeth's local newspaper:

"The Grey Club and the 10th Regiment had a game yesterday – the former lost by nearly 50 runs. The 10th have some good players amongst them, while the Grey boys are all boys but one. Still they did pretty well for their maiden match – and next time they hope to do better. The fielding on the Grey side was not good, while on the part of the Military it was excellent."

Many great cricketers have since started there cricketing careers at the Grey.

Ron Draper represented South Africa in the 1940's. Atholl McKinnon, the charismatic, left arm spinner who assisted Peter Pollock to bowl out the English at Trent Bridge in 1965 to record South Africa's first series win on English soil, was capped for the South Africa soon after School. Geoff Dakin(1956), who was to become the first President of the UCB of South Africa, captained the EP Currie Cup side for many years. Tom Dean, Grey High's legendary Cricket Professional arrived in 1957 (retired in 1978), at the time when Peter Pollock was starting to make his mark at the School. A tigerish personality with real pace to back it up, Pollock was to rapidly rise through ranks from EP Schools to Eastern Province, South Africa and represented the Rest of the World.

Grey High School has played many seasons in the Eastern Province Premier league, although in recent times they have chosen to play Schools, but travel regularly all over the Country to ensure quality opposition and cricket. Tom Dean's first objective on arrival at Grey was to win the men's league, which they achieved in the 1960/1 season, with Graeme Pollock , in the fourth term, and Bill McAdam, 1st term, captaining the team. This era saw the emergence of Graeme Pollock, who was to become South Africa's cricketer of the Millenium. It is difficult to explain to another generation the Pollock phenomenon. John Young, an Old Boy and author of "The Spirit of the Tower" explained; "Perhaps a combination of Adam Gilchrist's power, Sachin Tendulkar's timing and Brian Lara's flair goes some way to describing his genius."

It is with great pride that Grey High School along with King Edward School from Johannesburg has the most SA School capped cricketers (52 caps). Grey High School have, however comfortably the most caps in the post-apartheid era(1994 todate)