{"id":34190,"date":"2024-02-05T07:54:19","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T05:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=34190"},"modified":"2024-02-05T07:54:19","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T05:54:19","slug":"grey-college-turns-jacaranda-city-into-a-happy-hunting-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=34190","title":{"rendered":"Grey College turns Jacaranda city into a happy hunting ground"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Grey College,<\/strong> from Bloemfontein, turned the Jacaranda city into a happy hunting ground on the weekend by picking up two big wins over top Pretoria schools, and they added a win in Johannesburg for good measure.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, the side from the Free State came out on top in their first T20 of the day against a strong Pretoria Boys High<\/strong> side.<\/p>\n

In a low-scoring affair, they secured a two-wicket victory, thanks to Daniel Hattingh’s<\/strong> 41, which proved to be the deciding factor in the game.<\/p>\n

The Grey opening bowlers, Sicelo Matayi<\/strong> (3\/2) and Casper Trotskie<\/strong> (3\/9), were in red-hot form, claiming six wickets between them up front. River Scott<\/strong> chipped in with two wickets of his own as the Grey attack restricted Boys High to a meagre 103 all out.<\/p>\n

Graydon Lubbe<\/strong> was the Pretoria side’s stand-out performer with the bat, top-scoring with a mature 42 runs. His colleagues in the bowling department, Nic Rossouw<\/strong> (2\/15) and Tim Tattersall<\/strong> (2\/24), with four wickets between them, tried valiantly to stop the visitors. They didn’t have enough runs to play with, however, and the Bloem boys sealed victory in the 19th over.<\/p>\n

Later that afternoon, Grey College crossed paths with Jeppe High School for Boys<\/strong> in their second T20 of the day. A similar trend followed, with another low-scoring affair going the way of the men from the Free State.<\/p>\n

This time around, Henru de Wet<\/strong> led the Grey bowling attack, capturing 2\/14.\u00a0Sicelo Matayi<\/strong> was among the wickets again, bagging another two, to take his tally to five in the two T20 matches.<\/p>\n

Jeppe struggled against the disciplined Grey bowlers, making just 96\/6 in their 20 overs, led by Ryan Harcourt-Baldwin’s <\/strong>20.<\/p>\n

When Grey batted, Shreshth Kumar<\/strong> was the pick of the Jeppe bowlers, claiming two of the four wickets to fall at a cost of 28 runs.<\/p>\n

However, Ruben Maree’s<\/strong> 24 and Pieter Smit’s<\/strong> 23 from 26 balls saw the Bloemfontein school home with six wickets to spare.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, a big test awaited Grey College. Having to face the powerful Ho\u00ebrskool Waterkloof<\/strong> on home turf certainly flipped a switch for the men from the Free State. Sicelo Matayi<\/strong> (3\/25) and Casper Trotskie<\/strong> (3\/29) were on song again as they tore through the Klofies’ top order.<\/p>\n

A flu-ridden Marcus Bakker<\/strong> battled manfully to top score for Waterkloof with 27 from 28 deliveries. His captain Beukes van den Berg<\/strong> and Jaydon Blom<\/strong>, with 20 runs each, were the only other batsmen to make notable contributions as the home team mustered only 139.<\/p>\n

Christian Kind<\/strong> then led Grey’s reply. The opening batsman struck an unbeaten 55 runs from 64 deliveries and, together with Adem Niewoudt<\/strong> (30) and Ruben Maree <\/strong>(26), propelled the visitors to within eight runs of the Waterkloof total before the heavens opened up. That was more than sufficient to secure Grey a comfortable DLS win.<\/p>\n

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

Pretoria Boys High 103<\/strong> (Graydon Lubbe 42; Sicelo Matayi 3\/2, Casper Trotskie 3\/9, River Scott 2\/35); Grey College 104\/8<\/strong> (Daniel Hattingh 41; Nic Rossouw 2\/15, Tim Tattersall 2\/24). Grey College won by two wickets<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Jeppe High School for Boys 96\/6<\/strong> (Ryan Harcourt-Baldwin 20; Henru de Wet 2\/14, Sicelo Matayi 2\/22); Grey College 99\/4<\/strong> (Ruben Maree 24*, Pieter Smit 23; Shreshth Kumar 2\/28). Grey College won by six wickets<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Waterkloof 139<\/strong> (Marcus Bakker 27, Beukes van den Berg 20, Jaydon Blom 20; Sicelo Matayi 3\/25, Casper Trotskie 3\/29, Darion Rabie 2\/19, Daniel Hattingh 2\/20); Grey College 131\/5<\/strong> (Christian Kind 55*, Adem Niewoudt 30, Ruben Maree 26; Wian Ruthven 2\/17). Grey College won by 48 runs on DLS<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Grey College, from Bloemfontein, turned the Jacaranda city into a happy hunting ground on the weekend by picking up two big wins over top Pretoria schools, and they added a win in Johannesburg for good measure. On Saturday, the side from the Free State came out on top in their first T20 of the day […]<\/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-34190","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\/34190","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=34190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34190\/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=34190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}