Cricket

Our Facilities

Our field and net facilities adhere to high standards and have been chosen by the Titans and Northerns Academy and provincial structures as their preferred playing and practice facility. The facilities are comprised of the following:

  • 4 Synthetic Nets
  • 6 Grass Nets
  • 11 Middle pitches
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About Villagers Cricket

Irene Villagers Cricket Club is one of the biggest cricket clubs in the Northerns Cricket Union (NCU) with 19 teams across the juniors, ladies and gentlemen cricket sections.

Our quality integrated coaching programme hosts 11 coaches, including a Club Head Coach, Club Bowling Coach, Club Batting Coach, Ladies Head Coach and Junior coaching section, we provide our members with the best club training programme and opportunities in the NCU.

These opportunities and playing cricket “The Villagers’ Way” award our cricketers with a great cricketing experience and success.

History

Club History

Cricket in the Village dates as far back as the early 1900’s when one of our fields, The Oval, situated in the heart of Irene suburb, was created to play cricket against the Concentration Camp inmates.

Over time The Oval was transformed into a recreational space for the purposes of developing and playing cricket, and in 1965 Irene Villagers Cricket Club was established.

In 1967 Villagers Cricket formed a partnership with Irene Country Club (ICC) to provide the surrounding families and communities with a larger choice of sport to choose from. A new home field, the ICC Oval, situated at the Irene Country Club, was built and is now rated as one of the best club field facilities available in the NCU, hosting numerous academies and international team practices and matches.

The Villager's Code

One Club. One Culture. One Standard.

Being a Villager is more than playing cricket.

It is belonging to something bigger than yourself.

We respect the history and people who built Irene Villagers Cricket Club, while accepting our responsibility to shape its future.

We compete with ambition.
We prepare with purpose.
We play with integrity.
We lead with character.
We treat people with respect.
We support one another.
We take ownership of our actions.
We strive to improve ourselves and those around us.

We understand that wearing the Villagers badge is a privilege, not a right.
We represent our teammates, our coaches, our families, our club and everyone who has worn the Villagers colours before us.

We do not compromise our standards for convenience.

We do not blame.
We do not make excuses.
We do not put ourselves before the team.

We show character when things are difficult.

We celebrate each other's success.
We challenge each other to become better.
We create an environment where everyone can belong, contribute and aspire to be their best.

Because success at Villagers is not measured only by trophies.
It is measured by the people we develop, the standards we uphold, the relationships we build and the legacy we leave behind.

We honour our past.
We own our present.
We build our future.

This is the Villagers Way.

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Senior Cricket

Senior Cricket

Irene Villagers Cricket Club (IVCC) and all its teams are associated with the Northerns Cricket Union.

Ladies Cricket

Ladies Cricket

Ladies’ cricket is thriving at Villagers and fits perfectly into our family club culture.

Junior Cricket

Junior Cricket

Our junior cricket section caters for young cricketers from under-9 to under-15.

Schools

Schools

One of the most enjoyable and social outdoor sports in South Africa, is a game of skill and strategy played on a smooth, perfectly maintained bowling green where players roll biased bowls (balls that gently curve) as close as possible to a small target ball called the “jack”.

Popular in singles, pairs, triples or fours formats, the team with the bowl(s) closest to the jack scores points, making every delivery a blend of precision, tactics and gentle exercise suitable for all ages and fitness levels.

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Tours and Rental

South Africa has great weather conditions for cricket and sport in general all year round. This allows us to offer our quality facilities for cricket tours, and host Northern and Southern hemisphere pre-season training and corporate events.

Together with the Irene Country Club we not only offer quality cricket facilities, but also other sports like golf, tennis, bowls and squash for team building and management activities. We also provide access to Country Club quality catering.

We are associated with the African Pride Irene Country Lodge, which forms part of the Irene Village Complex, as well as gyms in the area for any conditioning requirements.

External trips to game parks and other scenic locations in South Africa can be arranged through the Country Club’s events department.

For more information please contact the Cricket Club or the Country Club’s events department.

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Cricket Development

Irene Villagers Cricket Club has various programmes and alignment initiatives to develop cricket and create a good pipeline for all our players.

Strategic alignment with schools, NCU, Titans and Cricket South Africa (CSA)

The alignment of skills and facilities with our feeder schools and the Titans are an important initiative to identify and develop talented players. Villagers are one of the first clubs which were awarded with CSA-approved accommodation on the premises of the club to create support structures for talented players. These alignments create opportunities for players and makes Villagers one of the key feeder clubs for the Titans provincial teams.

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