#Assupol TuksCricket is the club where it happens

Posted on June 15, 2017

Another season has come to an end but the net result for Assupol TuksCricket remained the same. It is the club where things happen. The 2016/2017 season will again be remembered as one in which the word success can be spelled in capital letters. 
 
The Assupol Tuks Cricket team capped a brilliant season by winning the Momentum National Club Championships. This latest edition to their ever growing “trophy collection” undoubtedly prove that Assupol Tuks Cricket is one of the best club teams in South Africa. 
 
It was the fourth tournament this season in which the Assupol Tuks team was victorious. They won Northerns Cricket Union (NCU) Premier League for the 7th year running, defended their title in the NCU T20-Tournament for the 5th year running as well as winning the inaugural NCU Time Cricket Tournament. They lost out to Pukke in the final of the Varsity Cricket Tournament.
The Cricket South African Awards event was another definite highlight for Assupol Tuks as Aiden Markram received the Domestic Newcomer of the Year Award while Sune Luus was the women’s player of the year. 
 
At the CSA Breakfast Awards evening Ruan de Swardt received the Coca-Cola Khaya Majola Cricket Week Player of the Tournament Award; Lungi Ngidi the Student Cricketer of the Year  Award and Heinrich Klaasen the Momentum National Club Championships Player of the Tournament Award.   Klaasen was also part of the Proteas squad that toured New Zealand while Ngidi starred in the T20-series against Sri Lanka. 
 
But it was not just on the field where things were happening for Assupol Tuks. The club now boasts with a state of the art new HQ. 
 
It is a dream come true for everybody involved with Assupol Tuks.  The process between the University of Pretoria and Neo Dimensions started in February 2013. After many meetings, design changes, location changes and budget changes, ground was eventually broken in May 2016. Thanks to the University of Pretoria and Assupol, who funded the project the building is now complete and ready for use.
 
Assupol who sponsored the club for the last 16 years has funded half of the project costs while still continuing their yearly sponsorship. This collaboration must be one of the biggest of its kind in amateur sport in South Africa.
 
The Assupol TuksCricket HQ was officially opened on 23 May 2017 by the Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Pretoria, Prof Cheryl de la Rey.
 
Assupol TuksCricket Head Coach, Kruger van Wyk said, “The completion of the Assupol TuksCricket HQ brings us one step closer to our dream for the Assupol Tuks Oval to become an international venue. With incredible facilities like this and a few other items such as an electronic scoreboard and floodlights we truly believe that this could become an exclusive venue for international, franchise, university cricket and senior provincial matches.”

 

 

 

- Author Wilhelm de Swardt

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