{"id":33636,"date":"2024-01-28T11:33:14","date_gmt":"2024-01-28T09:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=33636"},"modified":"2024-01-28T11:33:14","modified_gmt":"2024-01-28T09:33:14","slug":"coetzer-cracks-open-affies-batting-lineup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=33636","title":{"rendered":"Coetzer cracks open Affies&#8217; batting lineup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-33642\" src=\"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/PBH-cricket-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/>Johan Coetzer&#8217;s<\/strong> remarkable spell of five wickets for just 16 runs in seven overs was a crucial factor in<strong> Pretoria Boys&#8217; High&#8217;s<\/strong> victory over their old rivals <strong>Afrikaans Ho\u00ebr Seunskool (Affies)<\/strong>\u00a0on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The opening bowler&#8217;s heroics had Affies in serious trouble on 66\/5 as he and his team-mates doggedly defend their middling total of 151.<\/p>\n<p>Coetzer&#8217;s wasn&#8217;t a lone venture, however, as he found good support from <strong>Adam Cannata<\/strong> (3\/27) and <strong>Connor Hall<\/strong> (2\/31), who shared the other five wickets.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Marc van der Merwe<\/strong> also played his part in the Boys High victory, with his 66 runs proving to be a vital difference-maker.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Coetzer<\/strong> was also in the thick of things with the bat, delivering a valuable cameo of 25 runs after a collapse in the middle order, which enabled PBHS to establish a total which they were, ultimately, able to defend.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Divan de Villiers<\/strong> was mostly responsible for the Boys&#8217; High collapse. The all-rounder led the Affies&#8217; attack, knocking over four wickets for only 27 runs.<\/p>\n<p>However, only <strong>Janco Purchase<\/strong>, among the Affies&#8217; batsmen, looked comfortable at the crease, while all around him the heavy pressure exerted by the Boys High attack resulted in a steady procession of batsmen entering and exiting the crease.<\/p>\n<p>Purchase contributed a well-played 37 runs from 48 deliveries before becoming Cannata&#8217;s second victim. After his departure things went pear-shaped for Affies, who managed only 121 before they were bundled out.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, Pretoria Boys&#8217; High secured a stunning, but well deserved, 30-run victory.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Summarised scorecard:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pretoria Boys High 151<\/strong> (Marc van der Merwe 66, Johan Coetzer 25, Extras 20; Divan de Villiers 4\/21, Petrus Rautenbach 2\/17); <strong>Affies 121 <\/strong>(Janco Purchase 37, Extras 24; Johan Coetzee 5\/16, Adam Cannata 3\/27, Connor Hall 2\/31). <strong>Pretoria Boys&#8217; High won by 30 runs<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johan Coetzer&#8217;s remarkable spell of five wickets for just 16 runs in seven overs was a crucial factor in Pretoria Boys&#8217; High&#8217;s victory over their old rivals Afrikaans Ho\u00ebr Seunskool (Affies)\u00a0on Saturday. The opening bowler&#8217;s heroics had Affies in serious trouble on 66\/5 as he and his team-mates doggedly defend their middling total of 151. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":33642,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33636","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\/33636","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=33636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}