{"id":65848,"date":"2025-02-28T13:25:53","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T11:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=65848"},"modified":"2025-02-28T13:25:53","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T11:25:53","slug":"hilton-college-are-tuskers-100-baller-champs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=65848","title":{"rendered":"Hilton College are Tuskers 100-Baller champs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Robert Burman came up trumps when the pressure was on, taking charge of Hilton’s reply to lead them to a win over Michaelhouse. Photo: Justin Waldman Sports Photography<\/strong>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ahead of their meeting on the Hart-Davis Oval<\/strong> on Saturday, Hilton College<\/strong> and Michaelhouse<\/strong> met on the Pietermaritzburg Oval<\/strong> in the final of the Tuskers 100-baller<\/strong>. When last they met in one of the shorter formats of the game, Hilton won by 19 runs in the Clifton T20 Tournament<\/strong><\/a>. Victory went their way again on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Michaelhouse had performed well at the Independent Schools Cricket Festival<\/strong>, thanks to their improved batting form, so it was little surprise that when ‘House<\/strong><\/em> skipper Ethan Muir<\/strong> won the toss he elected to bat first. The Balgowan boys made a good start.<\/p>\n

Muir and Victor North<\/strong> cruised to 23 from only 15 balls, with the captain getting after the Hilton bowlers, before North was caught by Ben Erasmus<\/strong> off Luke Campbell<\/strong> for six.<\/p>\n

Muir and Ben<\/strong> Heuer<\/strong> advanced the total to 39, but Muir was then caught by Luke Wilson<\/strong> off Sechaba Gude<\/strong> for an aggressive 25 from 14 balls, which had included five fours.<\/p>\n

Heuer and Nicholas Baker<\/strong> added 28 for the third wicket, but the scoring slowed, with their runs coming from 36 deliveries. Baker was run out for 13 and Graydon Leslie<\/strong> and Radhesh Jhilmeet<\/strong> were then kept in check, scoring only nine runs between them from 24 balls.<\/p>\n

Off the second last ball of the innings, Heuer was run out for the innings’ top score of 41. He had smashed two sixes and struck a four while facing 37 deliveries.<\/p>\n

Leg-spinner David Hill<\/strong> undermined Michaelhouse’s pursuit of runs, picking up 1\/10 from his 20 balls, while Benoit Rey<\/strong> did a fine job, too, conceding only 13 runs from 20 balls.<\/p>\n

Ben Erasmus gave Hilton a decent start to their reply, but, after making 10 from 11 balls, he was bowled by Luke Mitchell<\/strong>, with the total on 12. James Ogilby<\/strong>, who has been on a good run of form, managed only nine on this occasion before he was LBW to Jean-Luc Rey<\/strong>, which reduced Hilton to 33\/2 from 39 deliveries.<\/p>\n

Six runs later, Alex Pitman<\/strong> was on his way for 17, caught and bowled by Cameron Jones<\/strong>. Hilton was on 40\/3, with 52 balls remaining. The contest was finely poised.<\/p>\n

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To the victor go the spoils: Hilton College, the 2025 Tuskers 100-Baller champions: Photo: Stuart Hockly.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Fortunately for the black and white, they found in Robert Burman<\/strong>, batting at five, the man for the moment. Together with Jayden Roux<\/strong>, he guided Hilton to a seven-wicket win, with four balls to spare.<\/p>\n

Burman struck an unbeaten 36 from 28 balls, with three fours and a six, and broke open a nail-biting contest by striking Rendani Nonge<\/strong> for a six, 11 deliveries from the end of their 100 balls. That big blow released the pressure that had been growing.<\/p>\n

Roux finished with 19 not out from 24, and did a good job of rotating the strike. His partnership with Burman produced 58 runs from 48 balls.<\/p>\n

Luke Mitchell was the pick of the Michaelhouse bowlers, capturing 1\/9 from 20 deliveries, while Jean-Luc Rey was very nearly as economical, claiming 1\/\/11 from his 20.<\/p>\n

SCORES<\/strong><\/p>\n

Michaelhouse 97\/5<\/strong> (Ben Heuer 41, Ethan Muir 25, David Hill 1\/10, Sechaba Gude 15); Hilton College 98\/3<\/strong> (Robert Burman 36*, Jayden Roux 19*, Luke Mitchell 1\/9, Jean-Luc Rey 1\/11). Hilton College won by seven wickets<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ahead of their meeting on the Hart-Davis Oval on Saturday, Hilton College and Michaelhouse met on the Pietermaritzburg Oval in the final of the Tuskers 100-baller. When last they met in one of the shorter formats of the game, Hilton won by 19 runs in the Clifton T20 Tournament. Victory went their way again on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":65851,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65848","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\/65848","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=65848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/65851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}