Sporting chance calypso cricket festival
With schools out and summer here, cricket is topping the recreational agenda for over 3000 children from different communities, who will take part in the 21st annual Sporting Chance Calypso Cricket Festival, now being held at local Cape Town beaches. Now in its 21st year, the festival runs every day from Monday 12 until Friday 16 December on Sunrise beach near Muizenberg (home of Calypso), Main beach - The Strand and on Long beach in Kommetjie.
Borne from a desire to introduce large numbers of kids to cricket and bring together the various communities and cultures of South Africa, The Sporting Chance Calypso Cricket Festival was started by Brad Bing of youth sports development agency Sporting Chance in 1990. The festival, in association with Virgin Active, I&J and Supersport Let’s Play, is an annual highlight for thousands of children who are bussed in to the beach, from various communities in the Western Cape including amongst others Langa, Manenberg and Ocean View, to pit their cricketing skills against one another.