{"id":35035,"date":"2024-02-15T22:07:01","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T20:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=35035"},"modified":"2024-02-15T22:07:01","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T20:07:01","slug":"marvellous-macrobert-ton-secures-st-johns-victory-over-norries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=35035","title":{"rendered":"Marvellous MacRobert ton secures St John&#8217;s victory over Norries"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_33895\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33895\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-33895\" src=\"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/cricket-st-johns-joe-macrobert.jpg\" alt=\"St John's College 1st XI captain Joe Macrobert.\" width=\"400\" height=\"490\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33895\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">St John&#8217;s College 1st XI captain Joe MacRobert.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Joe MacRobert&#8217;s<\/strong> marvellous century led<strong> St John&#8217;s College<\/strong> to a comfortable victory over <strong>Ho\u00ebrskool Noordheuwel <\/strong>in a <strong>Johnny Waite T20<\/strong> clash on Thurdsday.<\/p>\n<p>The opening batsman put the Norries to the sword, scoring 106 runs from just 56 deliveries. MacRobert&#8217;s innings included 11 boundaries, with five of them landing on the other side of the boundary.<\/p>\n<p>He combined well with his opening partner, the reliable, <strong>Nkosana Sibiya<\/strong>, for an assertive 50-run opening partnership. Sibiya contributed 24 of the 53 runs before <strong>Sage Pretorius<\/strong> (1\/38) manufactured a much-needed breakthrough.<\/p>\n<p>After that, MacRobert floored the accelerator. Combining with <strong>Thomas Ievers<\/strong> (24), the pair piled on 105 runs in just 8.2 overs, scoring at nearly 13 runs to the over.<\/p>\n<p>A mini collapse, initiated by the pick of the Noordheuwel bowlers, <strong>Marius Penning<\/strong>, pulled it back somewhat for the side from Krugersdorp. On a day that undoubtedly belonged to the St John&#8217;s batsmen, Penning returned 2\/25 from his four-over spell.<\/p>\n<p>Set a daunting 192 runs to win, Norries got off to a wobbly start, losing their first two wickets in the powerplay. <strong>Dian Taljaard<\/strong> led their recovery, top scoring with 28 runs. Middle-order batsmen <strong>Dylan Potgieter<\/strong> (24) and <strong>Pieter Bezuidenhout<\/strong> (26*) offered up some resistance, too.\u00a0It wasn&#8217;t enough, though.<\/p>\n<p>An economical bowling performance by the St John&#8217;s bowlers, well led by <strong>Alec Loveland,<\/strong> kept the Noordheuwel batsmen subdued. He bowled magnificently, picking up 1\/18. <strong>David Ireland<\/strong>, with 1\/22, lent good support as the home team strode to a 45-run victory.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Summarised scorecard:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>St Johns College 191\/5<\/strong> (Joe MacRobert 106, Nkosana Sibiya 24, Thomas Ievers 24; Marius Penning 2\/25); <strong>Noordheuwel 146\/5<\/strong> (Dian Taljaard 28, Pieter Bezuidenhout 26*, Dylan Potgieter 24, Duan van Aswegen 22; Alec Loveland 1\/18). <strong>St Johns College won by 45 runs<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe MacRobert&#8217;s marvellous century led St John&#8217;s College to a comfortable victory over Ho\u00ebrskool Noordheuwel in a Johnny Waite T20 clash on Thurdsday. The opening batsman put the Norries to the sword, scoring 106 runs from just 56 deliveries. MacRobert&#8217;s innings included 11 boundaries, with five of them landing on the other side of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":33895,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35035","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\/35035","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=35035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}