Gauteng turned around their
misfortune of last year’s Coca-Cola Khaya Majola Week, where they lost to
Western Province in the unofficial final, by beating them by two wickets this
time around.
The game was a thriller. Province
made 250 runs and then had Gauteng in all sorts of trouble, at 189/8. Lower
order batsmen Jayden Broodryk and Kagiso Rabada then came together and produced
a dramatic 53-run unbeaten stand to reach the target with seven balls to spare.
Broodryk was 38 not out in the
end, off 25 balls and Rabada 35 not out off 17 balls, which included one four
and four sixes. Rabada brought the proceedings to a close with a mighty six.
Grant Roelofsen laid the
foundation for Gauteng with a solid 63. He has scored runs in all his innings
in the week and totalled 226, at an average of 56.5 to be the top scorer of the
tournament.
The win meant that Gauteng were
one of just two teams two come out of the week unbeaten, along with Namibia.
There were two hundred on the
final day. Eastern Province’s Bradley Bopp made 101, off 104 balls, with 13
fours and four sixes in his side’s win over Border, and Danie Rossouw was 107
not out for Northerns, off 150 balls, with 11 fours and one six against
KwaZulu-Natal.
The best bowling figures of the
final day came from SWD’s Richard Maree, who took 6/28 against Limpopo. Maree
was the top wicket-taker at the week, with 16.
Scorecards
Eastern Province vs Border
Eastern Province 254 (Bopp 101, Petersen 35, Elembi
4/75, Langa 3/30) Border 141 (Ferreira 32, Bopp 3/10) Eastern
Province won by 113 runs
Easterns vs Mpumalanga
Easterns 219 (Germishuizen 73, Snyman 43, Corlenius
2/25) Mpumalanga 126 (Simelane 4/15, Mkhondwane 2/18) Easterns won by
93 runs
Free State vs Griqualand West
Free State 219/ 3 (Olivier 91*, Ntshona 46*, du
Plessis 36) Griqualand West 167 (Brits 43, Kruger 39*, Heilbron 3/34) Free
State won by 52 runs
North West vs KZN Inland
North West 87 (Oldfield 4/22, Elliot 2/9) KZN
Inland 88/4 (Oldfield 33*, van Wymeersch 28, Weyers 4/20) KZN Inland won
by 6 wickets
KZN vs Northerns
KZN 223/8 (Oakes 75, Naidoo 33, Melton 2/59) Northerns
227/4 (Rossouw 107*, Bruwer 44*, Phehlukwayo 2/2/33) Northerns won by 6
wickets
SWD vs Limpopo
SWD 117 (Human 4/29, Apea-Abu 2/22) Limpopo 37
(Maree 2/28, Roelfse 3/8) SWD won by 80 runs
Namibia vs Boland
Namibia 158 (Kruger 44, Erasmus 46, Botha 3/28) Boland
142 (Botha 58, Wessells 4/14, Snyman 3/28) Namibia won by 16 runs
Western Province vs Gauteng
Western Province 250/7 (Wheeler 62*, Strydom 45,
Hamaza 41, Rabada 2/30, Dudgeon 2/53) Gauteng 254/8 (Roelofsen 63,
Broodryk 38*, Rabada 35*, Galiem 2/41, Mona 2/55) Gauteng won by 2 wickets
with 7 balls to spare
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