As soon as he represented South Africa at the ICC World Championship under 19 ICC under 19 years, now Riley Norton has now led the national team to the World Rugby U20 in Italy 2025. Double sports talent capable of excel at the highest level in cricket and rugby.
Norton was one of the standout players at the U19 cricket championship and played alongside similar The more of and Lhuan-Dre Pretorius. While Maphaka and Pretorius Since then, Norton has set out on his higher international debuts for Proteas, Norton has set out in a different way, and has now found himself in the center of South African Rugby’s Youth Revival.
His versatile cricket skills were exhibited during the World Championship, where he raised 11 goals in an impressive 18.36 average. He was also effective with a bat, he dialed 50 after he was released only once in the tournament. His best versatile performance came against Sri Lanka, where he scored an undefeated 41 to direct South Africa to a respectable first shift before picking up four goals to help combine the opposition to only 113.
Norton’s transition to rugby was equally impressive. Team management in the global competition and now reaching the final signals of its growing reputation in sports. The twenty -year leadership and athletic versatility brought a comparison with other rare athletes with double sport. His rise commemorates names like Rudie van Vuuren of Namibia, who played great at the 1999 rugby championship and later during the 2003 World Cricket Championship, Sachin Tentulkar rejected.
South Africa will now prepare for the last obstacle in Italy, with Norton at the helm at what could be a decisive moment for players who have already wore national colors in two sports at the junior level. His journey quickly becomes one of the most interesting sports stories that will appear from South Africa in recent years.
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Published:
Amar Pancker
Published on:
18 July 2025
