{"id":90724,"date":"2026-02-19T08:59:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T06:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=90724"},"modified":"2026-02-19T08:59:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T06:59:05","slug":"w100-glenwood-tops-westville-off-last-ball-dhs-downs-northwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=90724","title":{"rendered":"W100: Glenwood tops Westville off last ball, DHS downs Northwood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-90725\" src=\"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/cricket-white-ball-190226-400x268.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"268\" \/>The <a href=\"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/waterkloof-are-kings-of-the-clifton-t20\/\"><strong>Clifton T20 Tournament<\/strong><\/a> appears to have done <strong>Glenwood High<\/strong>&#8216;s confidence the world of good. They won two of three matches in that event, and, on Wednesday, they followed up with a thrilling five-wicket win over <strong>Westville Boys&#8217; High<\/strong>, which was achieved off the last ball of the contest on <strong>Bowden&#8217;s Field<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Westville captain <strong>Kyle McGough<\/strong> chose to bat first after <strong>Kreesan Pillai<\/strong> called the toss incorrectly, but, apart from <strong>Tristin Delvin<\/strong>, the home side&#8217;s top-order batsmen failed to answer the call.<\/p>\n<p>Delvin played his part, cracking three sixes and two fours in his 47 off 40 balls, but the rest of the top five contributed only single-figure scores. It was left to <strong>Luca Roddan<\/strong> to provide Westville with a much-needed late innings boost. He obliged with 16 not out from only four deliveries, two of which went for six and a third for four.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, Westville finished on 110\/5.<\/p>\n<p>Glenwood skipper Kreesan Pillai led from the front with an outstanding return of 1\/9 from 20 balls &#8211; an economy rate of only 2.3 runs per over while sending down a fifth of the innings&#8217; balls. <strong>Qhamani Sikhutshwa<\/strong> was tidy, too, picking up 1\/15 from his 20.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Charles Nkwanyana<\/strong> was the only bowler to take more than two wickets. He got rid of <strong>Liam de Villiers<\/strong> and <strong>Aarin Rasmussen<\/strong> and claimed 2\/19 from 15 deliveries.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kamo Moloto<\/strong>, with an unbeaten 97, had propelled Glenwood to victory over the W100 frontrunners, <strong>Clifton College<\/strong>, on the final day of the Clifton T20, and he was once again the <em><strong>Green Machine<\/strong><\/em>&#8216;s star performer with the bat.<\/p>\n<p>Opening the innings, he weighed in with a run-a-ball 43, hitting six fours along the way. It was a tight battle throughout, though.<\/p>\n<p>When <strong>JP Pillay<\/strong> became the second batsman to fall, out for 14, Glenwood was on 53\/2 with 45 balls remaining. They needed to up their scoring rate.<\/p>\n<p>Moloto departed with 18 balls remaining. Glenwood was on 80\/4 after 82 balls, needing 31 runs for victory from 18 deliveries. <strong>Mishael Gunawardana<\/strong> and <strong>Charles Nkwanyana<\/strong> helped to usher them across the line, scoring 21 and 19 not out respectively, but it took a big last five balls to get them to the win.<\/p>\n<p>With only five left, Glenwood had 100\/5, still 11 runs shy of the target. After scrambling a leg bye off the first ball from <strong>Misbah Nair<\/strong>, Nkwanyana struck the next two deliveries for four. A single off the second-last ball brought the scores level, leaving it up to <strong>Jonah Chaita<\/strong> to find a winning stroke.<\/p>\n<p>He did, hitting a four, and Glenwood took victory.<\/p>\n<p>Aarin Rasmussen, with 1\/14 from 20 balls, and <strong>Ewan du Toit<\/strong>, with 1\/9 from 20, heaped pressure on Glenwood&#8217;s batsmen, while <strong>Josh Engelbrecht<\/strong> did well, too, capturing 2\/21 from 15. The visitors, though, had the final laugh.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Northwood vs Durban High School<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Durban High School (DHS)<\/strong> made a short trip to <strong>Northwood<\/strong> on Wednesday for a W100 showdown on the <strong>Robin Smith Oval<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Both sets of batsmen got stuck into the bowling, but the <em><strong>Horseflies<\/strong> <\/em>came away with a hard-fought 14-run win, thanks to a captain&#8217;s knock from <strong>Josh van Biljon<\/strong>.\u00a0He was the mainstay of their innings, which he opened with <strong>Ismaeel Omar<\/strong> after losing the toss. They gave DHS a good start, putting up 55 runs from 37 balls before Omar was caught and bowled by <strong>Keegan Reeves<\/strong> for 16.<\/p>\n<p>The best partnership of the DHS innings, though, was the third-wicket stand of 67 off only 35 deliveries between Van Biljon and <strong>Taine Havermann<\/strong>, which ended with Van Biljon&#8217;s departure. DHS had 133, and only 12 balls remained in the visitors&#8217; innings. By then, though, Van Biljon had inflicted major damage, striking eight fours and four sixes in his 75, which came off only 45 balls.<\/p>\n<p>Havermann ensured <em><strong>School<\/strong><\/em> finished strongly, sending a couple of deliveries flying over the boundary in his 31 from 24 balls, while Bonga Maphanga delivered late innings fireworks, blasting two sixes and a four in only six balls, which brought him 17 not out. Together, he and Havermann added a hasty 32 in 14 deliveries, and DHS totalled 165\/4.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the Northwood bowlers came in for some stick, but Keegan Reeves did a tidy job, returning 1\/16 from 15 balls.<\/p>\n<p>Faced with a challenging victory target, the <em><strong>Knights<\/strong> <\/em>went hard at the DHS bowling, and they made a tremendous start to their run chase, thanks to <strong>David de Bruyn<\/strong> and <strong>Ross McGlashan<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>They charged to 94 off 50 balls for the first wicket before McGlashan became the first to fall, trapped LBW by <strong>Tristan Quail<\/strong> for 21 off 20.\u00a0The very next ball, De Bruyn departed, caught by Bonga Maphanga off <strong>Matt Potgieter<\/strong> for a fiery 61 from only 32 balls. He had hit six fours and three sixes. Ten runs and 13 balls later, Northwood was reduced to 104\/3 when <strong>Luc Boyall<\/strong> was run out for eight.<\/p>\n<p>The contest tilted DHS&#8217;s way when Northwood made only 30 runs off the next 20 deliveries, with <strong>Thomas Oosthuizen<\/strong> the next to go, out for 13.<\/p>\n<p>With only 16 balls remaining and Northwood on 134\/4, Keegan Reeves tried to drag the home side across the line. He slammed four fours in an unbeaten 30 off 21, but it wasn&#8217;t enough.<\/p>\n<p>Bonga Maphanga conceded only four runs from his last five balls, while Taine Havermann claimed 1\/5 from the last five deliveries of the Northwood innings, and the hosts finished on 151\/5.<\/p>\n<p>Tristan Quail and Matt Potgieter led the DHS attack with 1\/21 and 1\/22 from 20 balls, respectively.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Summarised scorecards<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Westville Boys&#8217; High 110\/5<\/strong> (Tristin Delvin 47; Charles Nkwanyana 2\/19, Kreesan Pillai 1\/9); <strong>Glenwood High 114\/5<\/strong> (Kamo Moloto 43, Mishael Gunawardana 21, Charles Nkwanyana 19*; Josh Engelbrecht 2\/21, Ewan du Toit 1\/9, Aarin Rasmussen 1\/14). <strong>Glenwood won by five wickets<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Durban High School 165\/4<\/strong> (Josh van Biljon 75, Taine Havermann 31, Bonga Maphanga 17*; Max Nicholson 1\/15, Keegan Reeves 1\/16); <strong>Northwood 151\/5<\/strong> (David de Bruyn 61, Keegan Reeves 30*, Ross McGlashan 21; Tristan Quail 1\/21, Matt Potgieter 1\/22). <strong>Durban High School won by 14 runs<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Clifton T20 Tournament appears to have done Glenwood High&#8216;s confidence the world of good. They won two of three matches in that event, and, on Wednesday, they followed up with a thrilling five-wicket win over Westville Boys&#8217; High, which was achieved off the last ball of the contest on Bowden&#8217;s Field. Westville captain Kyle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":90725,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90724","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\/90724","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=90724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/90725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}