{"id":34045,"date":"2024-02-03T20:16:54","date_gmt":"2024-02-03T18:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=34045"},"modified":"2024-02-03T20:16:54","modified_gmt":"2024-02-03T18:16:54","slug":"pretorius-hits-half-century-affies-too-good-for-kes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=34045","title":{"rendered":"Pretorius hits half-century, Affies too good for KES"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Vihan Pretorius<\/strong>, the younger brother of SA u19 star Lhuan-dr\u00e9\u00a0Pretorius<\/strong>, led Afrikaans Ho\u00ebr Seunskool<\/strong> to a comprehensive seven-wicket victory over their old rivals, King Edward VII School,<\/strong> in Pretoria on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Just a day after his brother made 71 runs against Sri Lanka to secure South Africa a place in the semi-finals of the ICC u19 World Cup, Vihan, too, tallied a wonderful 71 runs from just 51 deliveries.<\/p>\n

His innings, combined with an unbeaten contribution of 39 runs from Divan de Villiers,<\/strong> meant that the side from Pretoria comfortably chased down a target of 144 runs.<\/p>\n

Jorich van Schalkwyk<\/strong>, put his all-round skills on show by leading the Affies’ bowling attack. He spun a web around the KES batsmen, claiming three wickets for only 12 runs. Wian Munnik<\/strong> (3\/35) also got in on the act, while Armin Snyman<\/strong> (2\/24) chipped in with two wickets of his own.<\/p>\n

For KES, Callum Ritchie<\/strong>, was the pick of their batsmen. He grafted hard under tremendous pressure to top score with 39. Michael Holmes<\/strong> was the only other KES batsman to make a noteworthy contribution, which was worth 22 runs.<\/p>\n

Christian Sabela<\/strong> gave it his all with the ball for KES and was their only successful bowler, returning figures of 1\/13 from five overs.<\/p>\n

Armaan Manack’s<\/strong> exceptional 177 runs from just 151 deliveries put St David’s Marist<\/strong> Inanda<\/strong> in a commanding position in their fixture against St Alban’s College on Saturday. The opening batsman’s innings included a whopping 21 fours and two sixes.<\/p>\n

Another good contribution of 71 runs from Matthew West <\/strong>helped the side from Johannesburg amass a mammoth total of 318\/7 from their 50 overs.<\/p>\n

On a day that belonged to the batsman, Boago Motlhabedi<\/strong>, shone for St Alban’s, claiming figures of two wickets for 35 runs from nine overs.<\/p>\n

Despite facing a daunting run chase, St Alban’s <\/strong>stayed in the fight with the bat and caused St David’s some discomfort as Head Boy and opening batsman Zack Richardson<\/strong> (88*, 75b*) and Patrick Weir<\/strong> (41*, 47b) got on top of the St David’s attack before lightning put an unfortunate end to the match.<\/p>\n

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

King Edward VII School 143<\/strong> (Callum Ritchie 39, Michael Holmes 22; Jorich van Schalkwyk 3\/12, Wian Munnik 3\/35, Armin Snyman 2\/24); Affies 147\/3<\/strong> (Vihan Pretorius 71, Divan de Villiers 35*; Christiaan Sebela 1\/13). Affies won by seven wickets<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

St David’s Marist 318\/7<\/strong> (Armaan Manack 177, Matthew West 71, Morteza Manack 23; Boago Motlhabedi 2\/35, Patrick Weir 2\/45); St<\/strong> Alban’s College 160\/2<\/strong> (Zack Richardson 88*, Patrick Weir 41*; Jason Rowles 2\/49). Match abandoned due to lightning<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vihan Pretorius, the younger brother of SA u19 star Lhuan-dr\u00e9\u00a0Pretorius, led Afrikaans Ho\u00ebr Seunskool to a comprehensive seven-wicket victory over their old rivals, King Edward VII School, in Pretoria on Saturday. Just a day after his brother made 71 runs against Sri Lanka to secure South Africa a place in the semi-finals of the ICC […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":29997,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34045","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\/34045","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=34045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}