{"id":30261,"date":"2023-09-14T09:52:36","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T07:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cricket.supersportschools.com\/?p=1154"},"modified":"2023-09-14T09:52:36","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T07:52:36","slug":"affies-to-good-for-old-rival-waterkloof-menlopark-edge-out-cornwall-hill-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=30261","title":{"rendered":"Affies too good for old rival Waterkloof, Menlopark edge out Cornwall Hill College"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The Afrikaans Ho\u00ebr Seunskool<\/strong> of Pretoria proved to be too good on home soil for their long-time rivals, Ho\u00ebrskool Waterkloof<\/strong> when they met in their round-robin clash of the Titans A-league on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Waterkloof won the toss and decided to bat first. Looking to put a competitive score on the board, Waterkloof found themselves in some early trouble, losing a wicket of just the second ball of the game.<\/p>\n

Divan Behrens<\/strong> (24, 48b) joined Wian Ruthen<\/strong> (39, 34b) as the pair grafted hard to recover from the early loss.<\/p>\n

Ruthen and Behrens were able to put together a solid partnership of 64 runs before Ruthen fell victim to the impressive Petrus Rautenbach<\/strong> (3\/40) with his score on 39 of only 34 deliveries.<\/p>\n

Ruthen departed not long after and the responsibility fell on the shoulders of Beukes van der Berg<\/strong> to get his team to a competitive total.<\/p>\n

Van der Berg kept his composure and with wickets falling all around him he managed to notch up a well-played half-century scoring 56 of 76 balls before he was sent back to the pavilion by Andru van Zyl<\/strong> (3\/41). With the Affie attack, led by Divan de Villiers<\/strong> (3\/22), applying continuous pressure, Waterkloof lost wickets on a regular basis to end up with a subpar total of 159\/10.<\/p>\n

The Affie batters too found it difficult to score with Waterkloof fighting back strongly with the ball and soon Tristan Luus<\/strong> (2\/22) got the breakthrough the Klofies were after claiming two quick wickets. However, Jorich van Schalkwyk<\/strong> showed his class, knuckling down to bring up a classy half-century, making 57 of 95 balls.<\/p>\n

Van Schalkwyk was well supported by his middle-order companion Ruben Groenewald<\/strong>, who too brought up his half-century, scoring at less than a run a ball for his 53 (51b) before both Affie batters were sent back to the changing room.<\/p>\n

Luus found support with the ball from Marcus Bakker<\/strong> who also claimed two scalps for 34 runs, but it was deemed too late as the home side got over the line comfortably claiming a significant victory, and coming out on top with five wickets.<\/p>\n

Menlopark<\/strong> got the better of Cornwall Hill College<\/strong> in their round-robin clash.<\/p>\n

Menlo won the toss and elected to wield the willow first. After getting off to a rocky start, opening batsman Dian van Zyl<\/strong> knuckled down to accumulate and knock the ball around for a well-played 39 of 74 deliveries. The Menlo batters continued to get good starts but good not capitalize as they lost wickets just as it seemed like a partnership started to brew.<\/p>\n

With their team somewhat in trouble the two lower-order batters in the forms of Pierre de Villiers<\/strong> (36, 39b) and Ben Strydom<\/strong> (33,30b) strode to the crease. The pair’s positive batting allowed them to start scoring more freely towards the back end of the innings as they guided Menlo to a reasonable total of 227 all out.<\/p>\n

Cornwall Hill got off to a reasonably good start in their search for the 228 runs required for victory. R. Herselman<\/strong>\u00a0grafted hard for his 24 of 49 balls to lay a solid platform for the batters to come. Although, after his departure things went pear-shaped for the men from Cornwall as they lost wickets in clusters.<\/p>\n

Steve Stolk<\/strong> proved to be the dangerman with the ball in hand, tearing through the Cornwall top order to claim remarkable figures of 4\/19.<\/p>\n

T. de Klerk<\/strong> (40, 65b) and J. Jansen<\/strong> (36, 37b) batted nicely to get their team back on track but it was deemed not to be enough as Cornwall’s remaining batters were bundled out for a meagre 151, handing Menlopark a convincing win of 76 runs.<\/p>\n

Summarised scorecards:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Waterkloof 159\/10<\/strong> (Beukes van der Berg 56, Wian Ruthven 39, Divan Behrens 24; Divan de Villiers 3\/22, Petrus Rautenbach 3\/40, Andru van Zyl 3\/41); Affies 163\/5<\/strong> (Jorich van Schalkwyk 57, Ruben Groenewald 53; Tristan Luus 2\/22, Marcus Bakker 2\/34). Affies won by five wickets.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Menlopark 227\/10<\/strong> (Dian van Zyl 39, Pierre de Villiers 36, Ben Strydom 33, GN van Zyl 26, Matt van der Westhuizen 26; J. Jansen 3\/26, R. Herselman 3\/34); Cornwall Hill College 151\/10<\/strong> (T. de Klerk 40, J. Jansen 36, R. Herselman 24; Steve Stolk 4\/19, GN van Zyl 2\/36). Menlopark won by 76 runs.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Afrikaans Ho\u00ebr Seunskool of Pretoria proved to be too good on home soil for their long-time rivals, Ho\u00ebrskool Waterkloof when they met in their round-robin clash of the Titans A-league on Saturday. Waterkloof won the toss and decided to bat first. Looking to put a competitive score on the board, Waterkloof found themselves in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":29997,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}