{"id":35783,"date":"2024-02-25T14:41:27","date_gmt":"2024-02-25T12:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=35783"},"modified":"2024-02-25T14:41:27","modified_gmt":"2024-02-25T12:41:27","slug":"ruvan-barnard-blasts-203-for-hts-drostdy-on-the-garden-route","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=35783","title":{"rendered":"Ruvan Barnard blasts 203 for HTS Drostdy on the Garden Route"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_35910\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35910\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-35910\" src=\"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/HTS-Drostdy-George-tour-400x329.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"329\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-35910\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">HTS Drostdy 1st XI (Photo provided)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>HTS Drostdy<\/strong> travelled to George to take on <strong>Ho\u00ebrskool Outeniqua<\/strong> in a 25-over game on Friday, ahead of their planned inter-schools, which will take place next year, when all of their teams will do battle in an annual fixture.<\/p>\n<p>The team from Worcester couldn&#8217;t match the hosts&#8217; pace in Friday&#8217;s encounter, but they bounced back to flex their muscles on Saturday when they took on <strong>Glenwood House<\/strong> in a 50-over fixture.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ruvan Barnard <\/strong>was at the forefront of the Drostdy batting effort, scoring a massive 203 runs off of only 109 deliveries, before retiring.<\/p>\n<p>Barnard&#8217;s robust innings included 30 boundaries, 12 of which went soaring over the ropes for the maximum. He and Stefan van der Merwe shared an enormous 243-run partnership and additional contributions from <strong>Gerhard le Roux<\/strong> (73), <strong>Darius Venter<\/strong> (44) and <strong>Regardt du Plessis<\/strong> (34*) saw Drostdy to a formidable total of 499\/4.<\/p>\n<p>They had batted well on the previous day against Outeniqua too, with <strong>Stefan van der Merwe<\/strong> making an undefeated 84 runs, but <strong>Stefan May<\/strong> (68*) and <strong>Trent Huisamen<\/strong> (48*) shared a winning 78-run partnership for Outeniqua from only 62 deliveries.<\/p>\n<p>There was no danger of Drostdy&#8217;s total being chased down on Saturday, with Barnard following up his double-century with a scintillating performance with the ball. He dismissed three Glenwood House batsmen for only 19 runs from 10 overs, four of which were maidens. It was an incredible all-round contribution for the young Drostdy talent.<\/p>\n<p>Du Plessis also snared three wickets to subdue the local batsmen, who were bowled out in the 48th over of their response, still 354 runs short of Drostdy&#8217;s total.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Summarised scores<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>24 February\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>HTS Drostdy 499\/4\u00a0<\/strong>(Ruvan Barnard 203, Stefan van der Merwe 93, Gerhard le Roux 73, Darius Venter 44, Ekstras 44, Regardt du Plessis 34*; Tristan van Zyl 2\/87); <strong>Glenwood House <\/strong><strong>145 <\/strong>(Extras 34, Melo Hlangani 26, Luann Erasmus 25, Lathim Impodu 25; Ruvan Barnard 3\/19, Regardt du Plessis 3\/27, Gerhard le Roux 2\/16).\u00a0<strong>HTS Drostdy won by 354 runs (50 Overs).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>23 February<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>HTS Drostdy 170\/4\u00a0<\/strong>(Stefan van der Merwe 84*, Ruvan Barnard 33, Stephan Steyn 25; Wernich Cassel 1\/20);\u00a0<strong>Outeniqua 172\/3\u00a0<\/strong>(Stefan May 68*, Trent Huisamen 48*, Joof Enslin 24; Bryan Cochrane 1\/19).\u00a0<strong>Outeniqua won by seven wickets (25 Overs).<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HTS Drostdy travelled to George to take on Ho\u00ebrskool Outeniqua in a 25-over game on Friday, ahead of their planned inter-schools, which will take place next year, when all of their teams will do battle in an annual fixture. The team from Worcester couldn&#8217;t match the hosts&#8217; pace in Friday&#8217;s encounter, but they bounced back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":35910,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35783","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\/35783","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}