{"id":83916,"date":"2025-09-29T07:33:54","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T05:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=83916"},"modified":"2025-09-29T07:33:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T05:33:54","slug":"saunders-harris-lead-wynberg-to-win-over-palmerston-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=83916","title":{"rendered":"Saunders, Harris lead Wynberg to win over Palmerston North"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Wynberg Boys’ High<\/strong> delivered an excellent team performance on Sunday, powering their way to a 95-run win over the touring New Zealand side, Palmerston North<\/strong>, in a 45-over match played on the Jacques Kallis Oval<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Batting first, the hosts patiently set about building a platform, with openers Matthew Saunders<\/strong> and Fawaaz Hendricks<\/strong> sharing a 68-run stand for the first wicket before Hendricks was dismissed for 21 from 38 balls, caught by Lucas Kempthorne<\/strong> off the bowling of captain Jordin Last-Harris<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Saunders settled in, however, and went on to top the Wynberg scoring, striking seven fours and a six in an impressive 81 off 115 deliveries.<\/p>\n

Michail Tarentaal<\/strong>, who came after the second wicket went down, made a useful contribution of 36 off only 31 balls.<\/p>\n

Kempthorne led the Palmerston North attack, capturing 4\/46 in nine overs, while Max Hart <\/strong>picked up a couple of sticks, too, at a cost of 55 runs from nine overs.<\/p>\n

The tourists’ bowlers let themselves down, however, with wayward lines, which resulted in 21 wides. In total, they conceded 38 extras, which helped Wynberg work their way to 238\/9 after their 45 overs.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately for the Kiwis, who needed to bat at 5.3 runs per over to win, their top order misfired, apart from Sean Rowe<\/strong>, who made 29 before losing his wicket to a run out.<\/p>\n

Max Culleton<\/strong> offered some hard-hitting resistance. Coming in at seven, he smacked three fours and a six in a run-a-ball 34.<\/p>\n

The biggest problem that Palmerston North faced, though, was Damien Harris<\/strong>, who ripped through the tourists’ lower order, claiming 4\/15 in five overs.<\/p>\n

While Harris mostly picked off the tail enders, Luke Kleinsmith<\/strong> and Jiyaad Abrahams<\/strong> accounted for two batsmen each in the top order.<\/p>\n

In the end, the visitors came up well short of Wynberg’s total, bowled out for 143.<\/p>\n

It was a second win on the weekend for Wynberg, who also defeated Paarl Gimnasium by 36 runs on Saturday<\/strong>.<\/a><\/p>\n

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

Wynberg Boys’ High 238\/9<\/strong> (Matthew Saunders 81, Extras 38, Michail Tarentaal 36*, Fawaaz Hendricks 21, Muhammad Ameen Schroeder 21; Lucas Kempthorne 4\/46, Max Hart 2\/55); Palmerston North 143\/10<\/strong> (Max Culleton 34, Sam Rowe 29; Damien Harris 4\/15, Jiyaad Abrahams 2\/18, Luke Kleinsmith 2\/23).<\/p>\n

Wynberg won by 95 runs.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wynberg Boys’ High delivered an excellent team performance on Sunday, powering their way to a 95-run win over the touring New Zealand side, Palmerston North, in a 45-over match played on the Jacques Kallis Oval. Batting first, the hosts patiently set about building a platform, with openers Matthew Saunders and Fawaaz Hendricks sharing a 68-run […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":62908,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83916","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\/83916","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/62908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}