{"id":89317,"date":"2026-01-26T09:48:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T07:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=89317"},"modified":"2026-01-26T09:48:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T07:48:48","slug":"kuijers-five-wicket-haul-secures-big-win-for-kes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=89317","title":{"rendered":"Kuijers’ five-wicket haul secures big win for KES"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"CricketConnor Kuijers<\/strong> was in top form, bagging a five-wicket haul, to help King Edward VII (KES) <\/strong>to a comfortable 146-run win over St Andrew’s School<\/strong> in their 50-over encounter on the John Hurry Oval<\/strong> at KES on Sunday.<\/p>\n

The contest against St Andrew’s was KES’s second of the weekend against a visiting Free State side. They faced Grey College<\/strong> on Saturday, but that match was abandoned due to lightning, 19 overs into the second innings.<\/p>\n

In that game, Troy Gordon<\/strong> scored a fluent 105 to help the home side to 255\/9. When play was stopped, Grey had stumbled to 79\/5 in reply.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, Matthew Bromley<\/strong>, the KES captain, won the toss, chose to bat first, and his batsmen fired, charging to 319\/4 from their 50 overs. Kuijers then led the KES bowling attack as they bundled out St Andrew’s in 40 overs for 173.<\/p>\n

Saints<\/strong><\/em> were on 89\/3 in the 24th over of their reply, doing a steady job of rebuilding their innings after losing three early wickets, when Bromley introduced Kuijers into the attack. His first task was to break a budding 36-run fourth-wicket partnership between FG Botha <\/strong>and Schalk van Rensburg<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Kuijers obliged by getting rid of Van Rensburg for 18. He also added the wickets of Harbin Smith<\/strong> and Botha in his first three overs, bringing to an end Botha’s fine 75 off 70 balls.<\/p>\n

In his fourth over, KES enjoyed further success, this time from a run out, and Kuijers added two more wickets in the 38th and 40th overs as the St Andrew’s reply hit the skids.\u00a0After nine overs, Kuijers’ contribution was an outstanding 5\/28.<\/p>\n

Earlier in the day, Gordon, Bromley, and Abdullah Mohammed<\/strong> struck half-centuries to bat KES into a strong position.<\/p>\n

Bromley got KES going with two partnerships worth a combined 135 runs. The opener, who scored 71 runs from 78 balls, shared a 72-run stand with Tiago Dias <\/strong>for the first wicket. He, then, added 52 more with Gordon, the innings’ top scorer.<\/p>\n

Gordon’s 95-ball stay resulted in an exceptional 96 runs, and he pushed the game forward with a solid 124-run third-wicket partnership with Mohammed, which lasted until Gordon’s dismissal in the 46th over.<\/p>\n

Mohammed, who finished unbeaten on 85 from 75 balls, stitched together a 60-run fourth-wicket partnership with Luke Clark<\/strong> that was broken on the last delivery of the innings.<\/p>\n

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

KES 319\/4<\/strong> (Troy Gordon 96, Abdullah Mohammed 85*, Matthew Bromley 71; Heindr\u00e9 Serfontein 1\/21, Berno Coetzee 1\/54). St Andrew’s School 173\/10<\/strong> (FG Botha 75, Dean Katzin 27; Connor Kuijers 5\/28, Luke Clark 1\/21). KES won by 146 runs<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Connor Kuijers was in top form, bagging a five-wicket haul, to help King Edward VII (KES) to a comfortable 146-run win over St Andrew’s School in their 50-over encounter on the John Hurry Oval at KES on Sunday. The contest against St Andrew’s was KES’s second of the weekend against a visiting Free State side. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":30003,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89317","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\/89317","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}