{"id":30272,"date":"2023-09-22T07:57:33","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T05:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cricket.supersportschools.com\/?p=1260"},"modified":"2023-09-22T07:57:33","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T05:57:33","slug":"somerset-college-outplay-df-malan-in-pre-season-t20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=30272","title":{"rendered":"Somerset College outplay DF Malan in pre-season T20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1268\" src=\"https:\/\/cricket.supersportschools.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/high-angle-view-of-cricket-bat-and-helmet-on-field-2021-08-28-17-17-52-utc-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As we get ready for the end-of-year cricket action to get started <strong>Somerset College<\/strong> and <strong>DF Malan<\/strong> got the ball rolling with a pre-season T20 match on the Taberer Oval on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The hosts set up an impressive 195\/9 with <strong>Chad Ayford<\/strong> and <strong>Jonno Firth<\/strong> scoring 59 runs each.<\/p>\n<p>Ayford opened for Somerset College and smashed seven quick sixes to get to his total in only 22 deliveries.<\/p>\n<p>Firth repeated the trick off of only 40 balls, adding seven fours and three sixes to his tally.<\/p>\n<p>The hosts then backed up their dominant batting display with some efficient bowling, containing the DF Malan batsmen to 79\/9.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thomas Parsons<\/strong> took three wickets and only conceded four runs in his three overs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Erian Vorster<\/strong> managed to survive long enough to score 33 runs for the visitors, but their opening five batsmen were dismissed for a combined total of only seven runs by the effective Somerset College bowling attack and they never managed to gain any real momentum.<\/p>\n<p>Their u15 teams also faced off and Somerset College won that match by 58 runs.<\/p>\n<p>The hosts scored 156\/5 in 20 overs with <strong>Dawid de Klerk<\/strong> contributing 45.<\/p>\n<p>They then bowled out the DF Malan boys with only one ball left in the game for 98 to secure the double for Somerset College on the day.<\/p>\n<p>They face Fairmont High School on Saturday for a 50 Overs match before the Cape Schools festival at the end of the month.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Summarized Scorecard:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Somerset College 195\/9\u00a0<\/strong>(Chad Ayford 59, Jonno Firth 59, Callum Hughes 26, Extras 20; Daniel du Plessis 2\/24, Benjamin Grobler 2\/38, Charl Botha 2\/46);\u00a0<strong>DF Malan 79\/9\u00a0<\/strong>(Erian Vorster 33; Thomas Parsons 3\/4, Dion Claassens 2\/10).\u00a0<strong>Somerset College won by 115 runs.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we get ready for the end-of-year cricket action to get started Somerset College and DF Malan got the ball rolling with a pre-season T20 match on the Taberer Oval on Monday. The hosts set up an impressive 195\/9 with Chad Ayford and Jonno Firth scoring 59 runs each. Ayford opened for Somerset College and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":30006,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30272","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\/30272","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}