{"id":62838,"date":"2025-01-20T16:10:31","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T14:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=62838"},"modified":"2025-01-20T16:10:31","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T14:10:31","slug":"roos-and-grooteman-sparkle-as-kes-decimates-northcliff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=62838","title":{"rendered":"Roos and Grooteman sparkle as KES decimates Northcliff"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Credit:Zieg Roos<\/strong> and Steele Grooteman<\/strong> shared seven wickets between them as they bowled King Edward VII School (KES)<\/strong> to a comprehensive nine-wicket victory over Northcliff High School<\/strong> at Northcliff on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Roos, the KES captain, won the toss and asked Northcliff to bat first. That was a good decision as KES bundled out Northcliff in 39 overs for only 82.<\/p>\n

Coach Vincent Jordaan<\/strong>\u2019s side easily chased down the victory target. They needed only 17.1 overs to score 86\/1.<\/p>\n

Sunday’s win was KES\u2019s third victory of the year. They already have five matches under their belt in 2025 before the Northcliff game. They won against Queens High School <\/strong>and Trinity House Rand Park<\/strong> Ride and lost to Waterkloof.<\/strong> Their other matches, against Parktown<\/strong> and St John’s College<\/strong>, were washed out by rain.<\/p>\n

Northcliff’s batsmen were watchful in the first 10 overs of the weekend’s encounter and compiled 37 runs in 9.4 overs before the opening stand was broken. Connor Kuijers<\/strong> provided KES with the breakthrough with the dismissal of Jack Woolard<\/strong>, who had scored a patient 22 off 38.<\/p>\n

Wollard’s dismissal, unfortunately for Northcliff, began a procession of wickets over the next 29 overs, with Northcliff immobile, stuck in quicksand.<\/p>\n

Roos tossed the ball to Steel Grooteman<\/strong> in the 15th over and the bowling change had an immediate impact. Grooteman grabbed a wicket with his second delivery to send Nkosana Tshabalala <\/strong>packing. That was the first of three wickets captured by Grooteman, who also accounted for Kyle Davies<\/strong>\u00a0and Cade Bradley<\/strong>. He finished with a very tidy three wickets for 17 runs in 10 overs.<\/p>\n

Roos, meanwhile, was adjudged the Player of the Match after his bowling performance.<\/p>\n

He introduced himself into the attack in the 22nd over, strung together a couple of quiet overs, conceding five runs in two overs, and was, then, rewarded with a wicket off his first delivery of the 26th over, his third over. The KES captain tied down the Northcliff batsmen, conceding a miserly 1\/1 runs per over, and claimed a superb 4\/10 from his nine overs.<\/p>\n

The bowlers’ outstanding performances served up a low total for KES’s batsmen to chase and they accomplished that at a canter. Tiago Dias <\/strong>(21*) and Khwezi Nyamathe<\/strong> (27) shared a 32-run partnership before it was broken by Declan Diesel<\/strong> in the fifth over, but Nyamathe’s wicket proved to be the only one that Northcliff was able to take before KES claimed victory.<\/p>\n

Dias and Eric Southey<\/strong> (29*) shared an unbroken 54-run second-wicket partnership to see them home.<\/p>\n

Summarised scorecard<\/strong><\/p>\n

Northcliff 82\/10<\/strong> (Jack Woolard 22, Kyle Davies 14, Zieg Roos 4\/10, Steele Grooteman 3\/17). King Edward VII 86\/1<\/strong> (Eric Southey 29*, Khwezi Nyamathe 27, Declan Davies 1\/22, Alex West 0\/9). KES won by nine wickets<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Zieg Roos and Steele Grooteman shared seven wickets between them as they bowled King Edward VII School (KES) to a comprehensive nine-wicket victory over Northcliff High School at Northcliff on Sunday. Roos, the KES captain, won the toss and asked Northcliff to bat first. That was a good decision as KES bundled out Northcliff in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":60143,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62838","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\/62838","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/60143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}