{"id":59935,"date":"2024-10-24T20:57:54","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T18:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=59935"},"modified":"2024-10-24T20:57:54","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T18:57:54","slug":"cornwall-hill-moves-into-titans-schools-sa20-semi-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=59935","title":{"rendered":"Cornwall Hill moves into Titans&#8217; Schools SA20 semi-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-30006\" src=\"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/high-angle-view-of-cricket-bat-and-helmet-on-field-2021-08-28-17-17-52-utc-scaled-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Cricket bat and helmet on field during sunny day\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/high-angle-view-of-cricket-bat-and-helmet-on-field-2021-08-28-17-17-52-utc-scaled-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/high-angle-view-of-cricket-bat-and-helmet-on-field-2021-08-28-17-17-52-utc-scaled-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/high-angle-view-of-cricket-bat-and-helmet-on-field-2021-08-28-17-17-52-utc-scaled-1.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Cornwall Hill College<\/strong> became the first team to qualify for the semi-finals of the Titans&#8217; <strong>Schools SA20<\/strong> competition on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Relive all the action on <strong>SuperSport Schools<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/supersportschools\"><strong>(www.supersportschools.com)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A 55-run partnership between <strong>Ab Rasool<\/strong> and <strong>Michael Blignaut<\/strong> on home soil was enough to steer Cornwall Hill to a comprehensive six-wicket victory over <strong>St Alban&#8217;s College<\/strong> in their quarter-final clash.<\/p>\n<p>Chasing a low target of only 109, the side from Centurion lost two early wickets to St Alban&#8217;s captain <strong>Liam Basch<\/strong>, who delivered an economical spell of 2\/16.<\/p>\n<p>Rasool, one of Cornwall&#8217;s top performers throughout the year, kept a calm head, however, occupying the crease expertly, to lead his side&#8217;s batting effort with 38 runs off of 25 balls.<\/p>\n<p>Blignaut played an equally important innings, contributing crucial 28 runs, while <strong>Layton Pullen<\/strong> put the final nail in the coffin when he smashed four fours and one six in a 19-ball innings that brought him an unbeaten 31 and took the home side to victory.<br \/>\n|<br \/>\nCornwall Hill won the game in the field. They demonstrated the importance of high-intensity fielding, which yielded three run-outs that brilliantly backed up a good performance by their bowlers. Although they did not take many wickets, the pressure built up by tight bowling played a significant part in the miscommunications between the St Alban&#8217;s batsmen.<\/p>\n<p>The visitor&#8217;s <strong>Kyle Block<\/strong> was, as always, a stalwart with the bat. His 38 runs, along with a 24-run contribution by <strong>Tiashin Naidoo<\/strong>, enabled the visitors to muster what might have appeared to be a defendable total. It would, unfortunately for them, prove to be not nearly enough as Cornwall Hill College raced to victory in only 14.1 overs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Summarised scorecard:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>St Alban&#8217;s College 108\/7<\/strong> (Kyle Block 38, Tashin Naidoo 24; Ethan Feris-Philander 1\/11);<strong> Cornwall Hill College 110\/4<\/strong> (Ab Rasool 38, Layton Pullen 31*, Michael Blignaut 28; Liam Basch 2\/16).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cornwall Hill College won by six wickets<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cornwall Hill College became the first team to qualify for the semi-finals of the Titans&#8217; Schools SA20 competition on Thursday. Relive all the action on SuperSport Schools &#8211; (www.supersportschools.com) A 55-run partnership between Ab Rasool and Michael Blignaut on home soil was enough to steer Cornwall Hill to a comprehensive six-wicket victory over St Alban&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":30006,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59935","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\/59935","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=59935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}