{"id":30322,"date":"2023-10-13T16:45:17","date_gmt":"2023-10-13T14:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cricket.supersportschools.com\/?p=1696"},"modified":"2023-10-13T16:45:17","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T14:45:17","slug":"strong-menlopark-batting-line-up-comes-off-against-st-andrews-bloemfontein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=30322","title":{"rendered":"Strong Menlopark batting line-up comes off against Saints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1290\" src=\"https:\/\/cricket.supersportschools.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Menlopark-2-300x179.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"238\" \/><strong>Menlopark<\/strong> fired off a serious warning shot to their opposition in the Westvaal North-South T20 tournament on Friday morning. The hosts chased down a challenging target of 201 set by <strong>Saint Andrew&#8217;s School<\/strong> with relative ease.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Marco Strydom<\/strong> (34, 22b) and <strong>Marcus de Aguiar<\/strong> (34, 17b*) led the charge with solid contributions.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside the pair, <strong>Willem Sevenster<\/strong> chipped in with a blistering cameo to swing the momentum in favour of Menlopark. He sent the ball to all parts of the ground, racing to his 30 from just 13 balls.<\/p>\n<p>Opening bowler <strong>JC Young<\/strong> led the Saints&#8217; bowling attack, claiming the impressive figures of 2\/30.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, <strong>Schalk Liebenberg<\/strong> set the standard for the Saint Andrew&#8217;s batsmen, compiling a wonderful 78 from just 42 deliveries. He found substantial support from <strong>Andre du Preez<\/strong>, who played equally well for his 53. Together, they helped the side from Bloemfontein post 200 for 8 in their 20 overs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Waterkloof<\/strong> cruised to a thumping victory of eight wickets against <strong>Ho\u00ebrskool Nelspruit<\/strong>. With Nellies batting first, the Klofie bowlers needed to hit their straps early and so they did. <strong>GJ de Swardt<\/strong> shone with a return of 2\/12 in his four overs, while <strong>Franco Cronje<\/strong> returned similar figures, but from two overs.<\/p>\n<p>With those two setting the tone, Waterkloof exerted a vice-like grip on the Nelspruit batting to restrict the opposition to a meagre 88\/8 from their 20 overs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Divan Behrens<\/strong>&#8216; 27 from 17 deliveries and a well-played 27 from <strong>Marcus Bakker<\/strong> broke the backbone of the run chase. A contribution of 26 from <strong>Wian Ruthven<\/strong> was the final nail in the coffin as the Klofies got home with more than 10 overs to spare.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Summarised Scorecard:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>St Andrew&#8217;s School<\/strong> <strong>200\/8<\/strong> (Schalk Liebenberg 78, Andr\u00e9 du Preez 53; GN van Zyl 3\/29); <strong>Menlopark<\/strong> <strong>202\/7<\/strong> (Marco Strydom 34, Marcus de Aguiar 34*, Willem Sevenster 30, Ben Strydom 26, Pierre de Villiers 23, Wian van Deventer 21; JC Young 2\/30). <strong>Menlopark won by two wickets.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ho\u00ebrskool Nelspruit 88\/8<\/strong> (Luke Poisson 18; GJ de Swardt 2\/12, Franco Cronj\u00e9 2\/12); <strong>Waterkloof 89\/2<\/strong> (Divan Behrens 27, Marcus Bakker 27, Wian Ruthven 26; Brendan Boucher 1\/8). <strong>Waterkloof won by eight wickets<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Menlopark fired off a serious warning shot to their opposition in the Westvaal North-South T20 tournament on Friday morning. The hosts chased down a challenging target of 201 set by Saint Andrew&#8217;s School with relative ease. Marco Strydom (34, 22b) and Marcus de Aguiar (34, 17b*) led the charge with solid contributions. Alongside the pair, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":30009,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30322","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\/30322","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=30322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}