{"id":63878,"date":"2025-02-03T12:10:36","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T10:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=63878"},"modified":"2025-02-03T12:10:36","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T10:10:36","slug":"van-der-walts-century-makes-it-one-apiece-in-bloemfontein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=63878","title":{"rendered":"Van der Walt’s century makes it one apiece in Bloemfontein"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo: Grey College on Facebook<\/strong><\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ho\u00ebrskool Waterkloof<\/strong>‘s wicketkeeper\/batsman, Rico van der Walt<\/strong> ensured the Pretoria school shared the spoils against Grey College<\/strong> in Bloemfontein over the weekend.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Relive all the action on SuperSport Schools<\/strong> – (www.supersportschools.com)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

On Friday afternoon, in the first of two matches between the schools, Grey College landed the first punch by winning the T20 clash.<\/p>\n

The foundation for their win was laid by the home side’s batsmen, with all-rounder Daniel Hattingh<\/strong> and the opener, Christian Kind<\/strong>, starring.<\/p>\n

Chasing 138 on what looked to be a challenging surface, the pair fought fire with fire and took the attack to the Klofie<\/strong> <\/em>bowlers.<\/p>\n

Hattingh led the way, smashing seven boundaries, three of which made ground for the first time on the other side of the rope, in a match-winning innings of 52 from just 40 balls.<\/p>\n

Kind was also aggressive and asserted his dominance with six boundaries in his 37 from only 26 deliveries. The pair’s 50-run partnership broke the backbone of the chase and fuelled Grey’s charge to a four-wicket victory in the 18th over.<\/p>\n

Van der Walt <\/strong>missed out in the T20, but he turned the tide for Waterkloof on Sunday. Fresh off of scoring a century against St Andrew’s School<\/strong> on Saturday, this time, with Waterkloof and Grey College playing a 40-overs-a-side game, he grabbed his opportunity with both hands and delivered another outstanding innings.<\/p>\n

The visitors were set a target of 223 for victory after a well-rounded effort from Grey’s batsmen took the hosts to 222\/6. Juan Maree<\/strong> sparkled lower down the order, top-scoring with 41 runs, but Van der Walt’s aggressive batting for Waterkloof stole the show.<\/p>\n

Coming in with his side unsteady at 9\/2, he teed off. He struck 12 fours and an astonishing eight sixes and played some delightful strokes to race to an unbeaten 128 from only 98 balls.<\/p>\n

Juan Swart<\/strong>, who is only in Grade 9, showed against tough opposition why he is regarded as one of the best up-and-coming batting talents at schoolboy level in South Africa.<\/p>\n

He provided Van der Walt with excellent support and made an unbeaten 42 in their 99-run partnership, which saw Waterkloof to a comfortable victory in the 34th over, with six wickets to spare.<\/p>\n

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

Friday – 31 January (T20)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Waterkloof 137\/7<\/strong> (Franco Schmidt 31, Jaydon Blom 21, AJ de Villiers 20, Ricardo Crous 20*; Henru de Wet 3\/15); Grey College 138\/6<\/strong> (Daniel Hattingh 52, Christian Kind 37, Extras 23; Darius Maritz 2\/13, AJ de Villiers 2\/20). Grey College won by four wickets<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Sunday – 2 February (40 over match)\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Grey College 222\/6<\/strong> (Juan Maree 41, Henru de Wet 37, Daniel Hattingh 37, Christian Kind 36, Jaco Prinsloo 30*; Wian du Plessis 2\/25, AJ de Villiers 2\/35); Waterkloof 223\/4<\/strong> (Rico van der Walt 128*, Juan Swart 42*, AJ de Villiers 26; Sicelo Matayi 1\/31). Waterkloof won by six wickets<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ho\u00ebrskool Waterkloof‘s wicketkeeper\/batsman, Rico van der Walt ensured the Pretoria school shared the spoils against Grey College in Bloemfontein over the weekend. Relive all the action on SuperSport Schools – (www.supersportschools.com) On Friday afternoon, in the first of two matches between the schools, Grey College landed the first punch by winning the T20 clash. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":63887,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63878","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\/63878","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=63878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}