John Peddie – IPS

Tours and Rentals

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.

Junior Cricket

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

Fun is a major motivator for children to play cricket. Our coaches are urged to not only focus on the winning of matches, but to develop a love of the game through the fun and excitement of competing. Villagers value the holistic development of children, and measure success on whether children choose to continue to play cricket the next season.

This approach is used to develop junior skills and align it with Villagers’ senior structures to prepare them for the different roles within a team environment and the different playing strategies. Some of the players that excelled through Villagers’ junior structures are Aiden Markram, Hardus Viljoen and Chris Morris.

Ladies Cricket

Ladies’ cricket is thriving at Villagers and fits perfectly into our family club culture. We are one of the few clubs in the country that has created an environment specifically for the development of lady cricketers. This provides us with a large player base which creates opportunities at all levels, with numerous Titans and SA players. We encourage all sisters, wives and girlfriends of the gentlemen playing cricket to become part of the Villagers Ladies cricket program. The past stigma of ladies playing cricket are long gone, and today the modern lady cricketer has as much opportunities in the world of cricket as any other women’s sport. For Villagers Cricket Club, the profile of female cricket players is equal to males, and is comparable to ladies in sports like hockey, tennis and golf.

Irene Villagers Cricket Club have two (2) Ladies teams competing in the NCU Ladies premier and promotion leagues.

To further create opportunities for ladies’ cricket we create and are involved with competitive private leagues such as the North vs South Ladies Cup and the Wanderers Ladies T10 tournament.

Senior Cricket

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

Our senior gentlemen section consists of five (5) teams of which four (4) are in the top three (3) leagues. Our teams compete well with regular league victories.

Team selections are managed by the selection committee and is based on statistics and a fair opportunity structure. All the senior teams are open and form part of a pipeline system that feeds into the Premier league team that competes at the highest level of club cricket.

Social cricket is welcome at the IVCC. To enter a closed team an application needs to be submitted to the committee for consideration. There are many social leagues that integrates with the NCU, most notably T20 leagues that take place from January to March every year. Villagers always look at opportunities to expand the love of the game, and initiatives that will benefit the club and its community will always be taken into consideration.