The Western Province Twenty/20 club champion, Durbanville Cricket Club, were victorious in both their qualifying matches during the past weekends Western Cape Regional Twenty/20 play-offs.
They will now represent the Western Cape at the Cricket SA Momentum Community Cup T20 championships that will be hosted in Pretoria in December.
After a 12 runs victory in a high scoring encounter by the SWD champion, George (who posted 1776/6) against Vredenburg Saldanha from Boland (165/7) there were high hopes for the men from George. After recording an impressive 8 wickets victory against Vredenburg/Saldanha the men from Durbanville were also too strong from George and won by a similar margin (by 8 wickets) in the decisive match. Durbanville (132/2 in 15.1 overs) easily surpassed the winning target after George was restricted to 130/6 in their allotted 20 overs.
Obus Pienaar with knocks of 71 and 36 together with his SWD teammate, Marco de Kock – who scored 30 and 20 respectively were the top performers with the bat for George. Against Vredenburg/Saldanha Bailey Aarons (3/30) and Jaco Janse van Rensburg (3/34) both bagged 3 wickets for George.
The summarised scorecards are:
WESTERN CAPE REGIONAL T20 PLAY-OFFS
George CC vs Vredenburg Saldanha CC
GEORGE 177/6 (Obus Pienaar 71, Marco de Kock 30, Jaco Janse van Rensburg 25, Franco Geldenhuys 24, Marlon Kannemeyer 2/32)
VREDENBURG SALDANHA165/7 (Shane Summers 48, Thomas Kannemeyer 29, Quinton Kannemeyer 24, Graeme Cupido 22, Bailey Aarons 3/30, Jaco Janse van Rensburg 3/34)
George won by 12 runs
Vredenburg Saldanha CC vs Durbanville CC
VREDENBURG SALDANHA 106/7 (Haratio Cornellisen 24, Shane Summers 22, Andre Malan 2/13, Jaco Castle 2/15)
DURBANVILLE 107/2 (12.3) (Byron Boshoff 41, Anwill Newman 1/15, Marlon Kannemeyer 3/1)
Durbanville won by 8 wickets
George vs Durbanville CC
GEORGE 130/6 (Obus Pienaar 36, Marco de Kock 29, Andre Malan 2/18, Kuda Samunderu 2/25)
DURBANVILLE 132/2 (15.1) (Kuda Samunderu 41, Bradley Barnes 39*, Jean Marais 18*, Jaco Janse van Rensburg 1/24, Shane Smith 1/27)
Durbanville won by 8 wickets
