{"id":30306,"date":"2023-10-07T17:45:24","date_gmt":"2023-10-07T15:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cricket.supersportschools.com\/?p=1548"},"modified":"2023-10-07T17:45:24","modified_gmt":"2023-10-07T15:45:24","slug":"run-fest-in-potchefstroom-with-day-two-delivering-massive-totals-for-hans-moore-and-gimmies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=30306","title":{"rendered":"Run Fest in Potchefstroom with Day Two delivering massive totals for Hans Moore and Gimmies"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Day two of the Gimmie Cricket Fest was action-packed, with Hans Moore crossing the 500-run mark and the hosts surpassing 400 runs in their 50-overs-a-side matches.<\/p>\n

A mammoth 522\/9 helped Hans Moore bag a second consecutive one-sided victory. The Hansies won the toss and elected to bat first against Trio High and, just like on day one, their opening pair proved instrumental as they combined for a wonderful partnership of 96 runs.<\/p>\n

Marno Grobler<\/strong> led the way with his quickfire 51, while Aiden Shaw<\/strong> played the anchor role and also brought up a half-century, contributing 54 from 55 deliveries.<\/p>\n

After the pair’s departure, all the Hansies’ batsmen cashed in, with their innings featuring no less than six half-centuries.<\/p>\n

It was Adam Kruger<\/strong>, however, who stole the show. Walking in at number ten, he let loose from ball one to rub more salt into the already severe Trio wounds. The bowling all-rounder smashed 99 from only 35 balls, at an eye-opening run rate of 283. His breathtaking innings, combined with the five other half-centuries, meant that the Hansies were able to amass an astonishing 522 in only 50 overs.<\/p>\n

On the side of Trio, Henrico van der Merwe<\/strong> could hold his head high after claiming 3\/83.<\/p>\n

Taking to the crease under tremendous pressure, the Trio batsmen soon found that pressure rapidly increasing as they lost wickets at regular intervals. Louis Boshoff<\/strong> was the only one able to stand his ground, counterpunching with 45 from just 27 balls.<\/p>\n

But the man from Benoni with the golden arm, Sahil Parbhoo<\/strong> (5\/8), bagged his second five-for in as many days. Together with Parbhoo, Adam Kruger<\/strong> wreaked havoc among the Trio batsmen, claiming four scalps of his own for only 22 runs.<\/p>\n

Together, they ripped apart the Trio reply, rolling over the opposition for only 66 runs.<\/p>\n

The Gimmie-Oval also played host to some entertaining chaos. Having won the toss, the home team opted to bat first against a wounded Helpmekaar bowling attack and, for the second day in a row, Tommie Botha<\/strong> was among the runs, scoring a scintillating 60.<\/p>\n

Botha’s knock was good, but Ewald Kruger<\/strong> grabbed the spotlight with a magnificent 98 from only 49 deliveries. There was a further significant innings from the other run-machine at the top of the order, Marnu Cronje<\/strong> (72, 58b), while Zavier van Rensburg<\/strong> matched Cronje’s contribution (72, 66b), which helped the hosts to cruise to 408 all out.<\/p>\n

Dihan Janse van Rensburg<\/strong> impressed with the ball for the Helpies as the Gimmies’ batsmen went on the attack. He snapped up 3\/42 despite it being a difficult day in the field for the men from Johannesburg.<\/p>\n

Cronje, after a fine innings, continued his heroics with the ball. He tore through the Helpies’ top order to end the day with a telling return of 4\/40, and Caiden Seleka<\/strong> chipped in with 3\/36, to close out the Helpmekaar innings.<\/p>\n

The Helpmekaar batsmen appeared shell-shocked and couldn’t put a meaningful partnership together. Juandr\u00e9 Verwey<\/strong>, after taking a solid 3\/73 with the ball, top-scored for them with 32 from 36 deliveries. His knock was, however, the only contribution of note in his side’s innings as they were bundled out for a meagre 154, which left Gimmies the winners by a massive 254-run margin.<\/p>\n

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

Hans Moore 522\/9<\/strong> (Adam Kruger 99, Zander Swart 66, Sheldon Kruger 65, Aiden Shaw 54, Xavier Coetzee 54, Marno Grobler 51, Warren Minnaar 43; Henrico van der Merwe 3\/83, Myburgh Jacobs 2\/90); Trio 66\/10<\/strong> (Louis Boshoff 45; Sahil Parbhoo 5\/8, Adam Kruger 4\/22). Hans Moore won by 456 runs.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Potchefstroom Gimnasium 408\/10<\/strong> (Ewald Kruger 98, Marnu Cronje 72, Zavier van Rensburg 72, Tommie Botha 60; Dihan Janse van Rensburg 3\/42, Juandre Verwey 3\/73, Aiden Pretorius 2\/43); Helpmekaar Kollge 154\/10<\/strong> (Verwey 32, Jean Lubbe 26, Hanru Marais 24, Pretorius 21). Potchefstroom Gimnasium won by 254 runs.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Day two of the Gimmie Cricket Fest was action-packed, with Hans Moore crossing the 500-run mark and the hosts surpassing 400 runs in their 50-overs-a-side matches. A mammoth 522\/9 helped Hans Moore bag a second consecutive one-sided victory. The Hansies won the toss and elected to bat first against Trio High and, just like on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":30003,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30306","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\/30306","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=30306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}