{"id":371,"date":"2021-09-06T10:39:50","date_gmt":"2021-09-06T08:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cricket.supersportschools.com\/potgieter-smashes-hts-middelburg-to-convincing-victory-over-uplands\/"},"modified":"2021-09-06T10:39:50","modified_gmt":"2021-09-06T08:39:50","slug":"potgieter-smashes-hts-middelburg-to-convincing-victory-over-uplands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=371","title":{"rendered":"Potgieter smashes HTS Middelburg to convincing victory over Uplands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-370\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 5px 0px; float: left;\" src=\"https:\/\/cricket.supersportschools.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/hts-middelburg3.jpg\" alt=\"hts middelburg3\" width=\"380\" height=\"380\" \/>Francois Potgieter<\/strong> (132) was in a destructive mood on Saturday as <strong>HTS Middelburg<\/strong> put <strong>Uplands College<\/strong> to the sword by 293 runs in their limited-overs league match in Middleburg. Potgieter&#8217;s century helped his side reached a massive 400\/7 in their allotted 50 overs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He faced only 100 deliveries in his innings of which he dispatched 19 past the boundary rope. Seven of these were maximums. <strong>Tihan du Preez<\/strong> (78), <strong>Borras Lottering<\/strong> (64), and <strong>Hardus Visser<\/strong> (52*) all also chipped in with half-centuries. Potgieter and Du Preez shared a 115-run partnership over the fourth wicket.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The only bowler who managed to trouble the batsmen of the <strong>Red Caps<\/strong> was <strong>Barney Poulsom<\/strong> who picked up three wickets at the cost of 46 runs. Two of his victims were Potgieter en Du Preez while his other wicket was the opening batsman <strong>Armand Maree<\/strong> (0) who he trapped with his legs before the wicket.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Uplands could only score 108 in answer to the home side&#8217;s mammoth total. Opening batsman <strong>Torr Turner<\/strong> (36) showing some resistance. For HTS Middelburg the bowling efforts of <strong>Divan Botha<\/strong> (4\/18), Maree (3\/25), and <strong>Divan van der Berg<\/strong> (2\/5) deserve applause.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">To watch the highlights of the match or the full game you can do so by going to <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>DigiTV.co.za<\/strong><\/span> or click on the direct link &#8211;\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/rooiestvkrieket\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/rooiestvkrieket<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><em>If you would like to submit your school&#8217;s results and scorecards &#8211; all you have to do is to mail the full scorecard to <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"mailto:hannes@schoolofcricket.co.za\">hannes@schoolofcricket.co.za<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Summarised Scorecards:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>HTS Middelburg 400\/7<\/strong> (Francois Potgieter 132, Tihan du Preez 78, Borras Lottering 64, Hardus Visser 52*; Barney Poulsom 3\/46);<\/span> <strong>Uplands College 108<\/strong> (Torr Turner 36, Barney Poulson 23; Divan Botha 4\/18, Armand Maree 3\/25, Divan van den Berg 2\/5). <strong>HTS Middelburg won by 293 runs<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ho\u00ebrskool Rustenburg 425\/7<\/strong> (N van Onselen 101, Waldo Meintjie 97, Extras 53, Ewald Kruger 47, Dewald du Plessis 43, Hanro Swanepoel 30, Dirkus Bisdhoff 26; Salmaan Shabbir 3\/59); <strong>Fields College 223\/8<\/strong> (Muhammed Bubulia 61, David Muzambi 50, Samuel Bobraine 50; Waldo Meintjie 3\/36). <strong>Rustenburg won by 202 runs<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Francois Potgieter (132) was in a destructive mood on Saturday as HTS Middelburg put Uplands College to the sword by 293 runs in their limited-overs league match in Middleburg. Potgieter&#8217;s century helped his side reached a massive 400\/7 in their allotted 50 overs.\u00a0 He faced only 100 deliveries in his innings of which he dispatched [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29968,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-371","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\/371","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}