{"id":89156,"date":"2026-01-24T13:03:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T11:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=89156"},"modified":"2026-01-24T13:03:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T11:03:30","slug":"nkunas-six-wickets-a-stunning-highlight-at-girls-northern-region-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=89156","title":{"rendered":"Nkuna’s six wickets a stunning highlight at Girls Northern Region playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The Nkowankowa Cricket Club<\/strong>‘s Nsovo Nkuna<\/strong> produced a remarkable spell of bowling to see the defending Switch Schools SA20<\/strong> Girls’ Northern Regional champions to an emphatic 10-wicket victory over the Titans’ winners, Ho\u00ebrskool Zwartkop<\/strong>, on Friday.<\/p>\n

Relive all the\u00a0Switch Schools SA20\u00a0<\/em>action on\u00a0SuperSport Schools – (www.supersportschools.com)\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The girls’ playoffs feature only three teams – Nkowankowa, Zwartkop, and Boksburg’s Ho\u00ebrskool Dr EG Jansen<\/strong>. Earlier in the day, Jansies<\/strong><\/em> also convincingly defeated Zwarries<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Nkowankowa, from Tzaneen, had to wait until the afternoon to make their bow. Then, they made a splash.<\/p>\n

Nkuna maintained an immaculate line and length, a signature of the Nkowankowa attack and, almost single-handedly, dismantled the Zwartkop batting line-up. She gave nothing away, conceding no runs from her three overs. It was, however, her extraordinary haul of six wickets that left spectators at the St Dunstan’s College Oval<\/strong> in awe.<\/p>\n

Behind Nkuna’s jaw-dropping 6\/0 from three overs, Nkowankowa dismissed Zwartkop for a meagre 24. The defending champs overhauled that total inside the fourth over of their reply.<\/p>\n

Earlier in the day, also at St Dunstan’s, EG Jansen<\/strong>‘s Tenique Williams<\/strong> produced a similarly noteworthy performance against Zwartkop, albeit with the bat. She fell just five runs short of a memorable century, smashing a scintillating 95 from only 50 balls, with 19 fours and a six included in her big innings, which accounted for more than half of her side’s total of 172\/3.<\/p>\n

With plenty of runs to defend, Jansies went hard at Zwarries with the ball. <\/span>Jessica Morgan<\/strong> led their attack, capturing 3\/16 from three overs as EG Jansen cruised to a commanding 59-run victory.<\/p>\n

Nkowankowa and the EG Jansen meet on Saturday morning at Willowmoore Park<\/strong> in a match that could be a precursor to a second meeting of the sides in the final.<\/p>\n

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

Session 1<\/strong><\/p>\n

EG Jansen 172\/3\u00a0<\/strong>(Tenique Williams 95, Extras 33, Nicia Swart 30; Mary-Kate Bothma 2\/38); Zwartkop 113\/8\u00a0<\/strong>(Genique Greeff 27, Extras 26; Jessica Morgan 3\/16).\u00a0EG Jansen won by 59 runs.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Session 2\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Zwartkop 24\u00a0<\/strong>(Mary-Kate Bothma 16; Nsovo Nkuna 6\/0, Alicia Masela 3\/3);\u00a0Nkowankowa CC\u00a0<\/strong>27\/0\u00a0<\/strong>(Tshepiso 12*; Genique Greeff 0\/10).\u00a0Nkowankowa CC won by 10 wickets.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Nkowankowa Cricket Club‘s Nsovo Nkuna produced a remarkable spell of bowling to see the defending Switch Schools SA20 Girls’ Northern Regional champions to an emphatic 10-wicket victory over the Titans’ winners, Ho\u00ebrskool Zwartkop, on Friday. Relive all the\u00a0Switch Schools SA20\u00a0action on\u00a0SuperSport Schools – (www.supersportschools.com)\u00a0 The girls’ playoffs feature only three teams – Nkowankowa, Zwartkop, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":62908,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89156","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\/89156","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89156\/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=89156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}