SWD draw with Border on Day 1 of Coke Week

Pretoria, 17 December 2014.

Western Province’s Kyle Verreyn and Stefan Klopper of Northerns were the individual heroes of the opening day of the U19 Coca-Cola Khaya Majola Week in Pretoria on Wednesday.

Verreyn made the first century of the week when he was 100 not out for Western Province against Free State. He faced 104 balls and hit 16 fours and one six, as he guided his side to 284/6 declared.

Klopper took a remarkable seven wickets for 35 in 13.4 overs of offpsin bowling to post the best bowling figures of the day. The second best bowling came from Matthew Rohland of Griquas, also a spinner, who took 5/49 against Namibia .

The opening day of the week saw the batsmen dominate. Apart from Verreyn’s ton, there were 14 half centuries scored. Stephen Reeves (80 not out for KwaZulu-Natal Inland v Eastern Province); Benjamin Van Niekerk (79 for Mpumalanga v Limpopo); Michau de Preez (67 for Namibia v Griquas); Matthew Christensen (78 for Western Province v Free State) and Koot Pienaar (64 for Free State v Western Province) got big half centuries and will be looking to build on those scores in the rest of the week.

The first day of the week is given over to declaration cricket, and with the captains erring on the conservative side, there were only two results in the eight games played.

Namibia beat Griquas outright, while Northwest got a first innings win over Easterns.

Thursday’s play will also feature declaration cricket, The fixtures are: WP v Northerns, Gauteng v KZN Inland, EP v Boland, KZN v Free State, Mpumalanga v Easterns, Namibia v SWD, Border v Griquas, Northwest v Limpopo.

Scores

Gauteng 224 1^st innings (Rickelton 50, Roelofsen 55, Landsberg 22, Green 22, Mvelase 33; Fortuin 4/45). Boland 1^st innings 136/3 (Gafieldien 31, Moses 37, Odendaal 29). Match drawn.

SWD 1^st innings 185/6 (Visagie 27, Bouwer 43, Marrow 29, Heunis 50). Border 1^st innings 153/5 (Ntondini 43, Niemand 57 not out; Gcanga 2/23, Nuys 2/41). Match drawn.

KwaZulu-Natal Inland 1^st innings 254 (Mahmoud 53, Tattam 30, Reeves 80 not out, Ngisi 21; Tait 4/48, Ndwanda 3/53). Eastern Province 1^st innings 121/7 (Haller 52, Knoetze 29 not out; Ngidi 2/17). Match drawn

Easterns 1^st innings 158 (Mahlaba 23, Sekhukhune 23, Van der Walt 58; Botha 2/27, Xaba 2/24, Meyer 2/24, Leokaoke 2/14). Northwest 1^st innings 169/7 (Steenkamp 55, Le Roux 36, Leokaoke 20; Tshabalala 3/43). Northwest won on 1^st innings.

KwaZulu-Natal 171 1^st innings(Mapirwa 43, Bossr  44, Hay 20, Phehkukwayo 21; Klopper 7/35). Northerns 1^st innings 86/6 (Foxcroft 24, Raselaka 23; Smit 2/10). Match drawn.

Limpopo 1^st innings 205/9 (Mathebula 44, Potgieter 33, Louw 53, De Lange 27; Nepgen 3/44, Methula 2/18, Van Niekerk 2/71, Mahima 2/52). Mpumalanga 1^st innings 168/8 (Nepgen 28, Van Niekerk 79, Mahima 27; Prinsloo 3/27). Match drawn

Namibia 1^st innings 177 (Green 39, Du Preez 67; Van Zyl 2/12, Rohlandt 5/49, Ntumka 2/29). Griquas 1^st innings 57 (Visagie 21; Smit 3/16, Snyman 3/7, Strauss 2/24, Vab Schoor 2/2). Namibia 2^nd innings 46/2 (Green 30). Griquas 2^nd innings 81/5 (Alexander 33; Snyman 2/37, Rautenbach 2/7). Namibia won outright.

Western Province 1^st innings 284/6 (Graham 48, Christensen 78, Verreyne 100 not out, Galiem 31). Free State 1^st innings 135/4 (Pienaar 64, De Beer 23, Stannard 21 not out; Mona 2/12). Match drawn