Five Maties Cricket players will represent Boland in the second edition of the Africa Cup T20 competition this weekend.

The competition is being played over four consecutive weekends in September and Keegan Petersen (captain), Kyle Simmonds, Justin Dill, Soyisile Pono and Niel Botha will be in action this weekend at Boland Park in Paarl.

Hosts Boland are joined by KwaZulu-Natal, Gauteng and Eastern Province, with the general consensus being that this is the toughest group of the lot in the 2016 competition, according to Supersport. The finals weekend of the competition is scheduled to take place from 30 September to 1 October.

The results of the other pools were:

Pool A: KZN Inland, Namibia, Western Province, North West. Winner: North West
Pool B: South Western Districts, Northerns, Northern Cape, Kenya. Winner: Northern Cape
Pool C: Border, Easterns, Free State, Zimbabwe. Winner: Zimbabwe

Two other Maties were also involved in the competition: Gerhard Erasmus represented Namibia and Jeremy Ives is representing Zimbabwe.

New Maties Cricket assistant coach Ryan Bailey wished the players well and said this competition is a wonderful opportunity for young players to showcase their talent.

"We pride ourselves that we run the Maties Club as a franchise – we run it as professionally as we can and as the students' schedules allow. We want to produce players for Boland and then it is Boland's job to prepare them for the Cobras and the Cobras's job to prepare them for the Proteas."