{"id":30357,"date":"2023-10-29T17:38:53","date_gmt":"2023-10-29T15:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cricket.supersportschools.com\/?p=2058"},"modified":"2023-10-29T17:38:53","modified_gmt":"2023-10-29T15:38:53","slug":"sensational-sekopane-leads-queens-high-to-massive-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=30357","title":{"rendered":"Sensational Sekopane leads Queens High to massive victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-950\" src=\"https:\/\/cricket.supersportschools.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/alessandro-bogliari-oDs_AxeR5g4-unsplash-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"268\" \/>Katlego Sekopane&#8217;s<\/strong> outstanding performances with bat and ball propelled Queens High School to a convincing victory over Parktown Boys High on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Sekopane led from the front, top scoring with a wonderfully constructed 69 from 87 deliveries. He then paced the bowling attack, sending down six overs and claiming a damaging 3\/22.<\/p>\n<p>Batting first, Queens endured a rocky start, losing two wickets for only 16 runs. However, when <strong>Pranay Tailor<\/strong> joined Sekopane, the pair got to work rebuilding their side&#8217;s innings.<\/p>\n<p>Tailor continued his purple patch with the bat, notching up yet another half-century, with 50 from 82 balls, in a 123-run partnership with Sekopane.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mzwakhe Mkhwananzi<\/strong>\u00a0also got in on the action with an important 33 in the latter stages of the innings, helping his side to a very defendable 249\/9 in their 50 overs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Aarush Siddapur<\/strong> shone with the ball for the visitors. In a wonderful eight-over spell, he snapped up 4\/30. <strong>Uwais Mahomed<\/strong> impressed, too, chipping in with an economical seven overs that brought him a return of 2\/26.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately for the visitors, their reply began shakily, and they soon found themselves in heaps of trouble on 65\/4. <strong>Miles Makudu <\/strong>resisted, however, demonstrating good composure to register the innings&#8217; highest score of 33 from 50 balls. <strong>Yahya Bhaba<\/strong> fought hard for a valiant 22 from 58 deliveries, but the Queens&#8217; bowlers were on top.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the efforts of the Parktown pair, Sekopane&#8217;s cheap three wickets, together with <strong>Kamogelo Matji&#8217;s<\/strong> 2\/25, was too much for the visitors.<\/p>\n<p>Although they spent almost 49 overs out in the middle, Parktown were restricted to a paltry 128 all out, leaving Queens the winners by a handsome 121-run margin.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Summarised scorecard:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Queens High School 249\/9<\/strong> (Katlego Sekopane 69, Pranay Tailor 50, Mzwakhe Mkhwananzi 33, Kabelo Rapodile 23; Aarush Siddapur 4\/30, Uwais Mahomed 2\/26) <strong>Parktown Boys High 128\/10<\/strong> (Miles Makudo 33, Yayha Bhaba 22; Sekopane 3\/22, Kamogelo Matji 2\/25). <strong>Queens High School won by 121 runs.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katlego Sekopane&#8217;s outstanding performances with bat and ball propelled Queens High School to a convincing victory over Parktown Boys High on Saturday. Sekopane led from the front, top scoring with a wonderfully constructed 69 from 87 deliveries. He then paced the bowling attack, sending down six overs and claiming a damaging 3\/22. Batting first, Queens [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":950,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30357","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\/30357","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=30357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}