Westville Boys High convincingly win the KwaZulu-Natal Coastal Coca-Cola® T20 Schools Challenge Provincial Final

The 2019 Coca-Cola® Schools T20 Challenge tournament has reached the business end of the tournament and Westville Boys High School has become the first team to qualify for the franchise finals as they won the KwaZulu-Natal Coastal Coca-Cola® T20 Schools Challenge Provincial final on the 1st February at Kearsney College.

Westville will play against the winner of the KwaZulu-Natal inland winners in the Dolphins franchise final on the 22^nd February at the Pietermaritzburg Oval.

This year’s provincial finals was played over two days at Kearsney College and started off at the quarter final stage with Westville Boys High School, Glenwood High School, Kearsney College, Durban High School, Kuswag Hoerskool, Thomas More College, Northwood School and Clifton School playing against each other to represent their province.

Westville beat Thomas More College by 111 runs in the in the quarter-final, Durban High School by 9 wickets in the semi-final and Glenwood High School by 6 wickets and with 11 balls to spare in the final.

Westville’s opening bowler, Luke Allen, was instrumental in his team making it through to the Franchise Finals by taking 8 wickets for 43 runs over the two days.

Gareth Beaven, from Westville was the top batsman for his school scoring 144 runs at an average of 72 over the two days.

The winner of the Franchise finals they will join other five franchises winners and the two schools that qualified though the CSA Focus School programme at the competition’s National Finals at the University of Pretoria from the 15th to 17th March 2019. The Coca-Cola T20 School Challenge winner stands to walk away with R110 000.00 for their school.

Results

Quarter-Finals:

Durban High School 120/7 (J Manicum 39) vs Kearsney College 113/9 (R Shedlock 3/19)

Durban High School won by 7 runs

Kuswag Hoerskool 22 (Andile Ngcobo 4/6) vs Glenwood High School 22/1

Glenwood won by 9 wickets.

Westville Boys High School 174/3 (J Viljoen 92*, G Beaven 44) vs Thomas More College 63 (Seth Rajakumar 4/9)

Westville won by 111 runs

Northwood School 102/9 (J Martins 59, A Chetty 4/20) vs Clifton School 103/4 (A Chetty 34)

Clifton won by 6 wickets.

Semi-Finals

Durban High School 116/6 (Brayden Sambhu 55, Luke Allen 3/13) vs Westville Boys High School 117/1 (J Oosthuizen 50*, G Beavan 64)

Westville won by 9 wickets

Clifton School 100 all out (A Chetty 43, J Hendrikse 3/20) vs Glenwood High School 102/4 (C Laycock 44*)

Glenwood won by 6 wickets

Final

Glenwood High School 117/9 (F Moran 67, L Allen 3/22) vs Westville Boys High School 120/4 (G Beavan 36)

Westville won by 6 wickets

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