MISSION: To find a schoolboy that excels at school level cricket and rugby. Answer: Tristan Tedder!! Tristan Tedder is a Kearsney College pupil who enjoys playing sports. He is multi talented and is capable of playing any sport.
This was proven during his primary school career where he made the 1st XI for cricket and 1st XV for rugby when he was only in Grade 6. Tristan also played hockey, soccer, swimming and won every race in Athletics. He was rewarded for his efforts when he made KZN U13 for Rugby, Cricket and Hockey. He currently has a Kookaburra cricket sponsorship.
It didn’t end in primary school as Tristan went on to make then KZN U15 cricket side and was voted as the KZN cricketer of the year in 2011. Unfortunately Tristan could not go to the Grant Khomo trials as he was in England with the Kearsney cricket side.
2012 also proved to be a good year for Tristan as he was chosen to be the 1st XV flyhalf when he was only in Grade 10. On the cricket field Tristan performed incredibly well and was selected for the KZN U17 cricket side. He was the only player to make the KZN CUBS from the KZN U17 Coastal team.
However Tristan’s greatest achievement was his selection for the KZN Craven Week team, and he has proven that dreams can become reality with consistent hard work and enthusiasm. The only thing left now for Tristan and his teammates is to beat Hilton on Saturday. The setting is perfect as it will be Kearsney Old Boys Day. Tristan & Co will have to be at their best tomorrow if they are to prevent Hilton from getting their second victory in two years against the lads from Botha’s Hill.
Some of Tristan’s achievements.
Junior School
Grade 6 1stXI Cricket
Grade 6 1st XV Rugby & KZN Rugby u12 (Captain)
Grade 6 1st XI Hockey
Grade 7 1st XV & KZN Rugby u13 (Captain)
Grade 7 1st XV Hockey & KZN Hockey u13
Grade 7 1st XI Cricket & KZN Cricket u13
DPHS Sportsman on the Year Grade 7
High School
CRICKET
Grade 9 1st XI Limited Overs
Grade 9 KZN Cricket u15 & KZN Cricketer of the Year
Grade 10 KZN Cricket u17
Grade 10 Dolphins u19
Grade 10 SA Cubs u19 Franchise Week
RUGBY
Grade 9 Rugby 1st XV 7’s (3rd term)
Grade 10 Rugby 1st XV & Missed Grant Khomo Trials for UK Cricket Tour
Grade 11 Rugby 1st XV & Craven Week u18a
@beet: I dont think that he was ever allowed to forget that
Heres the youtube link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xN5-Cga7zs
@meadows: My clearest memory of that 1986 game was the fight and most specifically Graeme Hefer running away from some angry NZ Cavaliers.
I don’t know. I believe College are missing a few first choice players (5 I think), but not sure if it is injury or illness – among them 3 CW and 2 Academy. Have heard Kearsney are missing players too (the Doops are apparently out?).
Take the time off – I am certain that the 30 boys that run onto the park will serve it up. It is the last schoolboy derby match for the Kearsney boys (??) so I am sure they will want to make it a good one, College will be putting it on the line.
Take the time off, you can work tonight and sleep when you are dead…..
@Gungets Tuft: Do you know if the CW and academy guys are playing this afternoon. No hidden agendas. It just might make the difference as to whether I take time off work to go and watch.
@BOG: Aye, Boggie, aye. Watching that Carte Blanche insert 2 weeks ago about that boykie that fell overboard ship in Indo, he said similar, that he was never going to miss another kids cricket or hockey match. I think Stephen Covey said similar, “nobody, on their deathbed, ever wished they had spent more time at work”.
So – Buffel and Greenblooded – busy as I am preparing for my little detour into the Central Kalahari next week – I will be at Kearsney this afternoon. Not watching the firsts play though, cosYcos my sons hockey match is at the same time. They might move it up till 1.30pm though, as the 1st hockey has been cancelled.
Speaking of cricketers on a rugby blog, I just read some sad news on GCBs FB. A young cricketer, David Smyth, aged 28, matriculated at Grey in 2002. He went to the UK where he played club cricket in Derbyshire. He was also a personal trainer at Virgin and according to his brother,an extremely fit young man. He had been married for only 6 months. He suddenly fell ill and it was discovered that he had cancer in several areas of his body. He died of a heart attack. It just illustrates how precious life is, but also that it cannot be taken for granted. And death is not something which only happens to old people. If you are not living your life as if you are living your last 5 minutes , you should take stock, because life, is really just a vapour. This never made sense to me when I was young, but with every day that passes, it makes more and more sense
@TheGoose: was also in KZN rugby I think 1991
@beet: Rob Hank actually played SA Schools for two years – a rare feat – finished at MHS in ’74 and went down to Maties. he was a Collegians and Natal stalwart in the 80’s.
I would have thought Mort had packed it in by the time Cliffy Hopkins was in the Natal front row – Mort was already on the scene when we were still A section in the late 70’s when Bennie de Klerk and Wakka Basson were his front row competition. if I remember correctly it was either Cliffy hopkins or Hank that threw the first punch in the Natal game against the NZ Cavaliers in 1986 at kings Park.
@McCulleys Workshop: I remember Cliffie use to come back to play in Old Crocks games at Kearsney each year. Him and Mort Mortassagne were our Natal Currie Cup B-section props with Rob Hankinson at hooker. I think Rob played SA Schools as well and was also a really good provincial level rugby player in his day.
@TheGoose: don’t forget Cliff Hopkins in your search for 50 rugby caps for Kearseny. I think he played 77, 78, 79 and was the second Kearsney boy to play SA schools. In 79 he destroyed Ivor Fisher, his opposing prop at MHS.
@TheGoose: all 3 of the Pearse’s where at Kearsney, I think Dave played lock for the old Duikers (Natal B) and played Natal cricket.
@meadows: Here are the details about Brian Pfaff Junior
Full name Brian Pfaff
Born November 27, 1994, Charlotte, North Carolina
Current age 18 years 204 days
Major teams KwaZulu-Natal Inland Under-19s
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm offbreak
Recent matches
Bat & Bowl Team Opposition Ground Match Date Scorecard
6*, 3/35, 3/21 KZN In U19 v GriqW U19 Pietermaritzburg 20 Jan 2012 Other
18*, 3/52, 26 KZN In U19 v F.State U19 Hilton 25 Nov 2011 Other
@star: Thought it might be Mike’s son – think he is also named Brian
@TheGoose: Dave Pearse was at Kearsney
@Buffel: Where were Grinyer and the Pearse brothers at school. Seem to remember a link to Kearsney….
@meadows: dave played cricket and hockey for Hilton-’82. s.a.schools hockey ’82. seriously talented ball player. Grinyer- S.A.SCHOOLS HOCKEY ‘83,84’85
S.A.SCHOOLS CRICKET ’84,’85. The Pearse brothers- Dave cricket and rugby for Natal in the late ’70’s and early ’80’s.
@ Beet- It is his grandson. Mike is the father( Hilton 1978). The brother (Dave) was SA Hockey with Giles Bonnet from House . In 1982 the first girls were admitted to Hilton and Dave and I were almost expelled for being in their room after hours. We hid under their beds and I can still remember the look on his face as the headmaster lectured the twins.
@beet: Could be a grandson. Brian’s sons were both good cricketers and hockey players and his older son definately has at least one boy there. Could also be one of his brothers grandkids – not a common name in SA.
@meadows: There is a 100m sprinter at Hilton named Pfaff. Might be Brian’s relative???
@meadows: Very interesting, hey
@Playa: interesting how many South Africans of that era were capped for the home countries while studying in the UK.
Another was Nick Labuschagne, former President of the NRU who played hooker for Natal in the 60’s, who was capped for England while studying in the UK. Nowadays he is better known as Pat Lambie’s grandfather
@Playa: He passed away in 2006 – played for Transvaal and Scotland in the 50’s.
@meadows: I know Chick Henderson. He used to commentate televised schoolboy games in the 90s as well.I didnt know he played for Scotland.
@Grasshopper: Kim Elgie was at MHS. Interestingly he played for Scotland alongside another MHS old boy in Chick Henderson who played No8 for Transvaal but was probably better known in later life as a commentator.
Another dual code sportsman of that era was Hilton’s Brian Pfaff who was a rugby Springbok and played cricket for WP.
@BOG: Went to school with some Tarkastad farmers in my time, 2 of them are Queenian’s nephews. Not a bad bunch, they just take some getting used to
@Grasshopper: michaelhouse i think. is an eye specialist .
@TheGoose: Sven Koenig was the Hilton flyhalf when Dale Benkenstein was the Michaelhouse no.10. I think they were both at Highburg together.
@Queenian: Tony Greig was at school before they selected a SA schools rugby side- otherwise, they say he was a certainty. His father was Sandy Greig, a Scotsman. Its by virtue of his nationality that Tony, and later Ian, qualified to play for England. Thankfully they did not hold his moms origins, Tarkastad, against him
@TheGoose: Yep, Dale Benkenstein another. Clint Bruyns….the lists are endless….Shane Morrow, Greg Nicol….
Sven Koenig (Hilton?) was a great sportsman too – I remember his cricket, and think he was also a great hockey player.
@Grasshopper: He was a wing. A huge man, with unbelievable pace.He holds the Dale record for the most tries in a season by a 1st XV player…25 I think it was.Brilliant sportsman, if only he had the passion to go on.
@Playa: Makhaya Ntini was an outstanding wing as well in his time. He played for Dale 2nds in 1995.Legend is he couldn’t be considered for 1sts because Dr Ali Bacher himself gave the directive
@Playa: I remember Terence Knicklebein, played Dale in the early 90’s, scrumhalf? Played with Steven Hall? Great allround sportsman…..pity he never progressed things….
Anybody heard of Michael ‘Kim’ Elgie, played SA cricket in the 60’s and Scotland rugby in the 50’s, was from Durban. Not sure what school he went to…
@Queenian: Sounds like Terrence Knicklebein was a re-incarnation of him.Terry played waterpolo for SA.Decided it wasn’t for him.Nick Mallet wanted him to come to Boland so he could push up for contention in the WP Super Rugby side.He declined.Then he had numerous offers in France and the UK to play rugby.He declined them all.No reason, but just lazy.Then again,some talented people are just content with doing the sports thing at school and are over it after that.
@beet: Don’t forget that Gary Kirsten was a great scrum-half as well. Had to make the choice between rugby and cricket.
Dale can boast Kenny Watson (1974). He went for cricket and played for SA in 1982.
Monde Zondeki (SA Cricket), though he didnt make SA Schools in rugby was one of the best schoolboy outside centers in his day.
Off the topic would be Buster Farrer (Hockey, Squash and Cricket for SA), Mike Jennings (Boks and SA Swimming in the 60s)- his father C.B. Jennings, who the Dale field is named after also played for the Boks at prop in the 30’s.
@GreenBlooded: No chance, beacuase there is only one school where they would have been able to manage him – and that would have counted against him.
@GreenBlooded: Ah ok, must have got a bursary to Kearsney or he would have gone to Glenwood for sure…..
@Grasshopper: Lloyd is the son of Paddy Madsen. Adele Madsen (Paddy’s wife, Lloyd’s mother) taught me at Primary School back in the very early 80’s.
@Queenian: Yep, all the Madsen’s were very talented ball sportsman. There sons were too. Mike and Trevor the most famous and then their boys, not quite the Pollocks…but the best sporting family at Glenwood for sure
LB Madsen – Springbok hockey – 1961
Mike Madsen – Springbok hockey – 1968 to 1981
PL Madsen – Springbok hockey – 1976 to 1987
Trevor Madsen – Springbok hockey – 1977 to 1987 and Springbok cricket – 1989
The Madsen’s must be the best hockey family in SA. Then there is Lloyd Madsen from Kearsney who is a current SA hockey player who must be one of the 4 brother’s above’s sons who didn’t go to Glenwood or a cousin/nephew…
@rugbyfan: Born and bred in Queenstown he,s father was the editor of the local newspaper and his mom was from Tarkastad.
@Queenian: Did not know he went to Queens?
@Queenian: Is that the same Toney Greig who was Captain of England cricket and the commentator he was a giant of a man as far as I recall he died not to long ago.
@beet: Toney Greig who was a lock. He clocked in at 127 kg as a schoolboy lock in 1965
@Playa: Herschelle Gibbs. Eish. I wonder if he would have been considered for the KZN Craven Week team this year……
@beet: Kenny Mc Ewan
@beet: How many have played SA Schools cricket and Rugby
@Grasshopper: Trevor Madsen was very talented new him quite well just think he took things two easy, but a great chap.
We should just publish a list of the greatest SA cricket/rugby allrounders of all times. Most were flyhalves.
Peter Kirsten
Darryl Cullinan
Herschelle Gibbs
Lee Barnard
Gavin Cowley
Errol Stewart
Rowan Varner
Gerbrandt Grobler
Hugh Reece-Edwards
Dan van Zyl
Who else?
Kenny McEwan
Tony Greig
@Playa: There was a Osborn fellow at Dale who was also very good in Rugby/Cricket his problem was he was just down right lazy but very talented.
@Playa: Gibbs was a very talented kid.
@BOG: The other Queenian who was like that was Kenny Mc Ewan played SA Schools cricket for 3 years also could not play SA Schools rugby because it clashed with a cricket tour to England he also played Juinor Wimbeldon tennis as well and won the Under 18 tennis champs in 1969. Although he did not play flyhalf but scrumhalf. Toney Greig was another one who would have played SA Schools rugby if it was not for cricket, his brother Ian was won of the few who have played SA Schools cricket and rugby.
@BOG: Don’t forget Herschelle Gibbs
@BOG: Ye Darryl Cullinan was a very good allround sportsman when at school besides playing for SA Schools cricket for two and being Captain the one year he would have also played SA Schools rugby but turned it down he was also SA Under 15/17/19 squash champion while at school he actually won the Under17 and 19 in the same year as a 16 year old. Was aslo a great athlete.
@TheGoose: And Natal Schools Rugby
I seem to recall that Hugh Reece-Edwards played Natal and SA Schools Cricket as well as cricket for Natal B (with one or two games for Natal) and then rugby for Natal and the Boks.
Peter Kirsten played cricket for SA as well as rugby for the junior Springboks as they call it in that era.
Herschel Gibbs come to mind, also quite a few dual hockey and cricket sportsman eg Trevor Madsen & Greg Nicol from Glenwood.
@Woltrui: Errol Stewart came close. Played ODI’s for SA, as well as Super Rugby / Currie cup for the Sharks.
I think he was in winning Currie Cup winning teams in cricket ( not sure if is was called currie cup at the time ) and rugby in the same year.
Never seen Tristan Tedder play, but from what I read I hope he goes all the way.
EW Viljoen and Julian Delicado from Free State probably in this league as well.
When last did a player represent his provincial team at Currie cup level at both rugby and cricket? I know of Gerbrand Grobler and was it Van Zyl??, the Pumas scrumhalf who played for Northerns Currie Cup cricket as well. Jeff Wilson the only player I know of who represented his Country at Rugby and Cricket at international level.
Its just surprising to see how many flyhalves are also good cricketers- Peter Kirsten, Darryl Cullinan, AB de Villiers — And an interesting comment by Allan Donald awhile ago. He said that at U 14 level, Johan Goosen was the quickest bowler that he had seen and while its difficult to make an objective assessment, he did think that he had the potential to go all the way
A very special talent . Have been there for the whole trip and can say he has a big future, whichever game he chooses. Single minded determination to succeed and a good boy to boot.Will be following his progress with interest .
@Woltrui: And for all these years the Bulls have been saying that the Sharks only buy their players
Tristan would not fit at the Bulls as he is a running flyhalf
I am proud to say that his Mom and Dad are good friends of mine and his father Bruce was my first XV captain in 1991. They have done a stirling job in raising a true star and I wish him the best for everything he does on and off the field. Bruce and Dietlyn……WELL DONE! And to answer you Rugger fan……yes he is a gentleman and humble!
And more than that – I believe he is an excellent gentleman – and humble.
I have seen CVs like that, culminating in Grey College 1st XV, FS schools, Grey College 1st XI, and then Springboks. If you you want to see a pictorial expression of this, visit GCBs FB page. And apart from all of that, he can enjoy the crisp clean and fresh air of the central region, the heart of rugby in SA. When he plays the Griffons, he may just get a taste of that.
A talented young man – lets hope that he fulfills all this potential in whatever sporting code he chooses. Unfortunately the days of being able to play rugby and cricket after school are over so choices have to be made.
Similar all round potential as Pat Lambie a few years ago. Pat played Craven Week and SA Schools in his Grade 11 and 12 years as well as Nuffield Week in both of those years. He also captained both the Craven Week and Nuffield side in his final year.
Interestingly he too arrived at MHS more highly rated as a cricketer and also missed out on selection for Grant Khomo in his U16 year.
Eish. What a brilliant CV. What a talent. Hopefully his parents is wide awake and send him to the Champion cricket and rugby province. The Blue Bulls.