{"id":89794,"date":"2026-02-05T08:37:45","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T06:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=89794"},"modified":"2026-02-05T08:37:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T06:37:45","slug":"de-villiers-five-for-sets-up-milnerton-victory-over-brackenfell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=89794","title":{"rendered":"De Villiers&#8217; five-for sets up Milnerton victory over Brackenfell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-62880\" src=\"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/iStock-846032496-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/><\/strong>When <strong>Milnerton High<\/strong> hosted <strong>Ho\u00ebrskool Brackenfell<\/strong> for a 40-over fixture on Wednesday afternoon, the\u00a0visitors\u00a0won the toss and walked straight into the den of <strong>Connor de Villiers<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In just six overs, De Villiers proved to be a nightmare to the <em><strong>Brakkies<\/strong><\/em>&#8216; batting line-up, capturing a match-winning 5\/9.<\/p>\n<p>Number three batsman, <strong>Dean Hatting<\/strong>, and opener <strong>Hiram Ockhuis<\/strong>, were the only visiting batsmen to tally double-digits.<\/p>\n<p>Ockhuis punched three fours in his patient 16 runs off 28 balls. Hatting was more aggressive, smashing four fours and a six in his side&#8217;s top score of 27 from 30 deliveries.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ryan Trollip<\/strong> brought a swift end to Brackenfell&#8217;s innings, however, collecting the last two wickets to finish with 2-0 from one over.<\/p>\n<p>After 28 overs, the northern suburbs&#8217; side was bowled out for only 89.<\/p>\n<p>Milnerton successfully chased down the modest total behind an\u00a0unbeaten 74-run second-wicket partnership between opener <strong>Tristan Logie<\/strong> and Ryan Trollip.<\/p>\n<p>Logie rotated the strike, but still mixed in six fours in his 36 off 42 deliveries. Trollip went on to the match&#8217;s top score, blasting an electrifying 48 from only 28 balls, with six fours and a blast for six over mid-on.<\/p>\n<p>It was a dry spell for the Brakkies&#8217; bowlers, who went wicketless as the visitors&#8217; sole wicket came from a run out.<\/p>\n<p>It took <em><strong>Millies<\/strong><\/em> only 12.1 overs to reach 90\/1, which earned them a comfortable nine-wicket win.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Summarised Scorecard<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ho\u00ebrskool Brackenfell 89\/10<\/strong> (Dean Hatting 27, Extras 21; Connor de Villiers 5\/9, Ryan Trollip 2\/0); <strong>Milnerton High 90\/1<\/strong> (Ryan Trollip 48*, Tristan Logie 36*). <strong>Milnerton won by nine wickets.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Milnerton High hosted Ho\u00ebrskool Brackenfell for a 40-over fixture on Wednesday afternoon, the\u00a0visitors\u00a0won the toss and walked straight into the den of Connor de Villiers. In just six overs, De Villiers proved to be a nightmare to the Brakkies&#8216; batting line-up, capturing a match-winning 5\/9. Number three batsman, Dean Hatting, and opener Hiram Ockhuis, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":62880,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89794","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\/89794","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=89794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/62880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}