{"id":63986,"date":"2025-02-05T08:14:52","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T06:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=63986"},"modified":"2025-02-05T08:14:52","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T06:14:52","slug":"st-johns-into-johnny-waite-semis-st-davids-beats-trinityhouse-randpark-ridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=63986","title":{"rendered":"St John’s into Johnny Waite semis, St David’s beats Trinityhouse Randpark Ridge"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nkosana Sibiya. Photo: St John’s.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

St John’s College<\/strong> remains on course for a successful defence of the Johnny Waite<\/strong> T20 title after a six-wicket win over Noordheuwel<\/strong> on Tuesday. The victory earned the Alec Loveland<\/strong>-captained side a berth in the semi-finals.<\/p>\n

St David’s Marist Inanda<\/strong>, also, took a step closer to the last four with a 10-wicket home win over Trinityhouse Randpark Ridge<\/strong>. The result was determined by the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern<\/strong> method after the match was halted by rain and lightning.<\/p>\n

Playing at the Khosa Cricket Club<\/strong>, Loveland and James Yuill<\/strong> shepherded St John’s to 151\/6, with an unbroken 46-run partnership, to seal victory for coach Bongani Ntini<\/strong>‘s outfit.<\/p>\n

The visitors had won the toss, elected to field first, and restricted Noordheuwel to a manageable 147\/6 in 20 overs.<\/p>\n

Ethan Robinson<\/strong> played a crucial role in St John\u2019s keeping Noordheuwel to a total below 150. The pacer took a single wicket in his four overs. However, it was the crucial wicket of Ethan Smit. <\/strong>The Noordheuwel number four batsman looked dangerous. At the time of his dismissal, he had crunched a single four and two sixes for 40 off 28.<\/p>\n

Smit shared Noordheuwel\u2019s highest partnership, a brisk 48-run fourth-wicket stand, with Brandon Pieters<\/strong> (24), which came off 33 deliveries. Marius Penning<\/strong> and Dian Taljaard <\/strong>made solid contributions, scoring 33 and 34 respectively, to lay a foundation for Smit and Pieters to be expansive.<\/p>\n

In reply, Darshik Lutchman<\/strong> and Nkosana Sibiya<\/strong> gave St John’s the perfect start to their run chase, sharing a 53-run opening partnership off 5.5 overs. That strong start put the visitors on the front foot, despite a small wobble that followed the end of their first-wicket partnership when St John’s lost two more wickets in 1.5 overs for only four runs.<\/p>\n

They recovered with small contributions from Herman Basson<\/strong> and Malan du Plessis<\/strong>\u00a0before Loveland and Yuill took over.<\/p>\n

The Manack brothers<\/strong>, Armaan<\/strong> and Morteza,<\/strong> struck a combined 10 fours and two sixes on their way to an unbroken 67-run opening stand in just six overs against Trinityhouse Randpark Ridge, with St David’s chasing 139 for victory.<\/p>\n

When rain and lightning brought the encounter to a halt, the St David’s score, after that galloping start, earned them victory on the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern method.<\/p>\n

Earlier in the day, Christopher Emslie<\/strong> had bowled well to help St David’s restrict Trinityhouse to 138\/6 in 20 overs. He finished with an impactful three wickets for 19 runs from four overs. Morteza Manack was one of three bowlers who bagged a wicket, and it was the crucial wicket of Justin du Preez<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Du Preez arrived at the crease in the first over after the dismissal of Kenrick Duncan<\/strong>. The number three batsman, then, played an outstanding innings, blasting three fours and five sixes on his way to a wonderful 73 off 45 balls. He also shared a brilliant 86-run fifth-wicket partnership with Jarred Montjoel<\/strong> that put Trinityhouse on course for a decent total.<\/p>\n

St David\u2019s faces Monument<\/strong> on Wednesday. The regional Schools SA20 champions<\/strong><\/a> must win to qualify for the semi-finals.<\/p>\n

Scorecards<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ho\u00ebrskool\u00a0Noordheuwel 147\/6<\/strong> (Ethan Smit 40, Dian Taljaard 34, Herman Basson 2\/19, Aiden Barberrini 1\/10). St John\u2019s College 151\/4<\/strong> (Darshik Lutchman 39, Nkosana Sibiya 36, Marius Penning 3\/20, Corn\u00e9 Olivier 1\/32). St John’s won by six wickets<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Trinityhouse Randpark Ridge 138\/6<\/strong> (Justin du Preez 73, Jarred Montjoel 31, Christopher Emslie 3\/19, Hayden Campbell 1\/25). St David’s Marist Inanda 67\/0<\/strong> (Armaan Manack 43*, Morteza Manack 23*, Stef Steyn 0\/17, Jarred Montjoel 0\/20). St David’s won by 10 wickets.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

St John’s College remains on course for a successful defence of the Johnny Waite T20 title after a six-wicket win over Noordheuwel on Tuesday. The victory earned the Alec Loveland-captained side a berth in the semi-finals. St David’s Marist Inanda, also, took a step closer to the last four with a 10-wicket home win over […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":63987,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63986","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\/63986","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=63986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}