{"id":60516,"date":"2024-11-03T13:18:48","date_gmt":"2024-11-03T11:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=60516"},"modified":"2024-11-03T13:18:48","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T11:18:48","slug":"westville-wins-at-michaelhouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=60516","title":{"rendered":"Westville wins at Michaelhouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_60518\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60518\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-60518\" src=\"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/cricket-westville-031124-400x316.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Brad Morgan.\" width=\"400\" height=\"316\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-60518\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Brad Morgan.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The <strong>Westville Boys&#8217; High<\/strong> 1st XI made their trip up to the KZN Midlands for a showdown with <strong>Michaelhouse<\/strong> on Saturday worth their while by powering their way to a big 82-run victory on the <strong>Roy Gathorne Oval<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The toss went the <strong>Griffins<\/strong>&#8216; way and they chose to bat first, which appeared to have backfired when they lost both of their openers for single-figure scores.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Seth Simpson<\/strong>, though, has been in good form and he, again, delivered. Batting at three, he made 68 from 97 deliveries, smashing a six and adding eight fours. His knock proved pivotal in setting the visitors on course for a solid total.<\/p>\n<p>When he departed, the fourth man out, Westville had reached 135\/4 in the 31st over.\u00a0Together with <strong>Sean McGough<\/strong>, who went on to contribute 38 from 53 balls, Simpson put on 78 for the fourth wicket from 98 deliveries.<\/p>\n<p>With others chipping in here and there &#8211; <strong>Sekou Shangase<\/strong> (19), <strong>Tristin Delvin<\/strong> (18), <strong>Kyle McGough<\/strong> (16), and <strong>Roxton Payne<\/strong> (15) &#8211; Westville added 96 more runs in 117 balls to make their way to 231 all out off of exactly 50 overs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ethan Muir<\/strong>, who counted Simpson among his victims, bowled well, capturing 4\/38 from 10 overs, while the reliable <strong>Ross Moller<\/strong> bagged 2\/37 from his 10, and <strong>Radhesh Jhilmeet<\/strong> claimed 2\/31 in five.<\/p>\n<p>Michaelhouse needed to bat at 4.64 runs per over to win, and Seb Hofmeyr, opening the innings, did a fantastic job. The problem for the home side was that only Jean-Lec Rey gave him good support. The other nine batsmen mustered only 36 runs between them.<\/p>\n<p>Hofmeyr top-scored with a fine 64 from 81 deliveries, which included eight fours and a six, while Rey struck four fours in his 36 from 50. There was little momentum to &#8216;House&#8217;s effort, however, as wickets fell regularly.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nicandro Kistna<\/strong> and Roxton Payne were, mostly, responsible for that. Kistna, in only 5.3 overs, claimed 3\/19, while Payne snared 3\/27 in 10 with his left-arm spin. His removal of Ethan Muir and <strong>Cival Rugbar<\/strong> for ducks, tore the heart out of the Michaelhouse middle-order, reducing the home side to 53\/5 in the 17th over.<\/p>\n<p>From there, the chances were slim that the Balgowan boys would win. They were bowled out for 149 in 35.3 overs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Summarised scorecard<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Westville Boys&#8217; High 231\/10<\/strong> (Seth Simpson 68, Sean McGough 38, Ethan Muir 4\/38, Radhesh Jhilmeet 2\/31, Ross Moller 2\/37); <strong>Michaelhouse 149\/10<\/strong> (Sebastian Hofmeyr 64, Jean-Luc Rey 36, Nicandro Kistna 3\/19, Roxton Payne 3\/27).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Westville Boys&#8217; High won by 82 runs.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Westville Boys&#8217; High 1st XI made their trip up to the KZN Midlands for a showdown with Michaelhouse on Saturday worth their while by powering their way to a big 82-run victory on the Roy Gathorne Oval. The toss went the Griffins&#8216; way and they chose to bat first, which appeared to have backfired [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":60518,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60516","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\/60516","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}