{"id":85891,"date":"2025-10-30T20:00:35","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T18:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=85891"},"modified":"2025-10-30T20:00:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T18:00:35","slug":"bowlers-set-up-dhs-for-switch-schools-sa-20-win-over-kearsney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=85891","title":{"rendered":"Bowlers set up DHS for Switch Schools SA 20 win over Kearsney"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kearsney College’s picturesque AH Smith Oval. Photo: Brad Morgan.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Durban High School<\/strong> (DHS)<\/strong> had their way with Kearsney College<\/strong> in a Switch Schools SA20 Volume Two<\/strong> clash played at Kearsney’s AH Smith Oval<\/strong> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

They skittled the home side for only 89 runs and then bounded to an eight-wicket win, although it took them over 17 overs to get there.<\/p>\n

DHS skipper Josh van Biljon<\/strong> won the toss and opted to field first. That was a good call, but it needed his bowlers to make it so.<\/p>\n

Bonga Mapanga<\/strong> and Josh Morley<\/strong> set Kearsney on the back foot early by removing two of the hosts’ more dangerous ball strikers, Aaron Blackburn<\/strong> and Keegan de Jager<\/strong>, cheaply.<\/p>\n

Asher Hollister<\/strong> and Rivaan Moodley<\/strong> advanced the score from 20\/2 to 49 before Moodley fell, and Hollister followed on the same total, with Tristan Quail<\/strong> involved in both dismissals. Moodley was caught for 18 by Bonga Mapanga, while Hollister also exited for 18, run out by a combination of Sulaimaan Jadwat<\/strong> and Quail.<\/p>\n

The dismissal of the duo led to a collapse and the architect of that collapse was Sibusiso Dube<\/strong>, who grabbed the next four wickets to fall, with his excellent effort with the ball reducing Kearsney from 49\/4 to 80\/8.<\/p>\n

The Botha’s Hill boys weren’t able to advance their total much beyond that, with Bonga Maphanga bowling both James Bishop<\/strong> and Litha Gonya<\/strong> to end Kearsney’s innings on 89.<\/p>\n

Dube was the star of the show with the ball, capturing 4\/20 in his four overs, while Mapanga sparkled, too, knocking over 2\/7 in 3.1. His fellow new ball bowler, Josh Morley, also did a good job and put Kearsney under pressure with a return of 1\/15 from four overs.<\/p>\n

Faced with a modest 90-run victory target, DHS stumbled out of the gate, losing both openers, Sulaimaan Jadwat and Syad Basha<\/strong> with only 31 runs on the board in the ninth over.<\/p>\n

The departure of the openers, though, brought together the experienced Josh van Biljon and Taine Havermann<\/strong>, and they calmly steered DHS to victory, sharing an unbroken stand of 59 runs for the third wicket from 55 balls.<\/p>\n

Van Biljon top-scored, striking seven fours in his undefeated 46 from 43 deliveries. Havermann, meanwhile, smashed the only six of Kearsney’s innings – Michael Groom<\/strong> hit Kearsney’s sole six in making 12 from 11 – and finished with 23 not out from 26 balls.<\/p>\n

Michael Groom bowled well, picking up 1\/7 from three overs, while James Bishop was the only other wicket-taker, snaring 1\/7 from two.<\/p>\n

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

Kearsney College 89\/10<\/strong> (Asher Hollister 18, Rivaan Moodley 18; Sibusiso Dube 4\/20, Bonga Maphanga 2\/7); Durban High School 90\/2<\/strong> (Josh van Biljon 46*, Taine Havermann 23*). Durban High School won by eight wickets<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Durban High School (DHS) had their way with Kearsney College in a Switch Schools SA20 Volume Two clash played at Kearsney’s AH Smith Oval on Wednesday. They skittled the home side for only 89 runs and then bounded to an eight-wicket win, although it took them over 17 overs to get there. DHS skipper Josh […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":62059,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85891","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\/85891","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=85891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/62059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}