{"id":65905,"date":"2025-03-01T08:30:32","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T06:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=65905"},"modified":"2025-03-01T08:30:32","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T06:30:32","slug":"st-andrews-school-tops-grey-college-in-bloemfontein-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=65905","title":{"rendered":"St Andrew’s School tops Grey College in Bloemfontein showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Happy smiles from the St Andrew’s School 1st XI after they beat Grey College in a battle of Bloemfontein’s best. Photo: St Andrew’s School on Facebook<\/strong><\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

St Andrew’s School<\/strong> continued their recent run of success against Grey College<\/strong> <\/a>by scoring an emphatic 76-run victory at Grey on Friday in a 50-overs-a-side clash.<\/p>\n

Saints<\/strong><\/em>‘ skipper Reuben van Aarde<\/strong> opted to bat first after winning the coin flip, and his top-order batsmen came through for him.<\/p>\n

Opening batsman Naud\u00e9 Botha<\/strong> anchored the winnings with an outstanding innings of 92 from 97 balls, which included 13 fours.<\/p>\n

He enjoyed strong support from Jonathan Hickley<\/strong>, who struck five fours in his 45 from 65 deliveries, while Grov\u00e9<\/strong> du Preez<\/strong> almost matched Hickley’s contribution, making 43 from 55 balls, including three fours.<\/p>\n

The captain, Reuben van Aarde, added a useful 21 towards the end of the Saints’ innings, helping his side to total 250 all out after their 50 overs.<\/p>\n

St Andrew’s might have made significantly more had their star batsman, FG Botha<\/strong>, who has enjoyed a scintillating season, not been run out for 10.<\/p>\n

Jano Venter<\/strong> led the Grey attack with a return of 3\/37 from nine overs. Juan Maree<\/strong> did a tidy job, claiming 2\/27 in eight, and Sicelo Matayi<\/strong> picked up 2\/48 in eight.<\/p>\n

Grey’s reply ran into early trouble, with Pieter Smit<\/strong> caught behind by Naud\u00e9 Botha for a duck off the bowling of Cullen Kakora<\/strong>, Divan Bezuidenhout<\/strong> bowled by Erhard Behrens<\/strong> for six, and Daniel Hattingh<\/strong>, who was outstanding on Grey’s tour of the Western Cape<\/strong><\/a>, also falling victim to Barends for only one.<\/p>\n

Henru de Wet<\/strong> and Christian Kind<\/strong> put a stop to the slide, with both making half-centuries. The captain, De Wet, made 53 from 84 balls, with three fours and a six, while Kind sent six balls to the boundary and one over it in compiling 59 from 81.<\/p>\n

Once they were dismissed, though, Grey’s challenge fell away. Jaco Prinsloo<\/strong> and Albert Liebenberg<\/strong> made it into the teens, but there was little output from the other batsmen, and Grey tumbled to 174 all out.<\/p>\n

While FG Botha might have missed out with the bat, you can’t keep a good man down and he made his mark with the ball, snaring 3\/31 from his 10 overs of leg spin.<\/p>\n

Three bowlers chipped in with two wickets apiece. Opening bowlers, Cullen Kakora and Erhard Barends captured 2\/19 from 6.1 overs and 2\/33 from 10 respectively, while Nikhil Sukraj<\/strong>, also with leg spin, knocked over 2\/27 in seven.<\/p>\n

Scores<\/strong><\/p>\n

St Andrew’s School 250\/10<\/strong> (Naud\u00e9 Botha 92, Jonathan Hickley 45, Grov\u00e9 du Preez 43, Johan Liebenberg 21, Jano Venter 3\/37, Juan Maree 2\/27, Sicelo Matayi 2\/48); Grey College 174\/10<\/strong> (Christian Kind 59, Henru de Wet 53, FG Botha 3\/31, Cullen Kakora 2\/19, Nikhil Sukraj 2\/27, Erhard Barends 2\/33). St Andrew’s School won by 76 runs<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

St Andrew’s School continued their recent run of success against Grey College by scoring an emphatic 76-run victory at Grey on Friday in a 50-overs-a-side clash. Saints‘ skipper Reuben van Aarde opted to bat first after winning the coin flip, and his top-order batsmen came through for him. Opening batsman Naud\u00e9 Botha anchored the winnings […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":65906,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65905","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\/65905","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=65905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/65906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}