Hoërskool Waterkloof continue their good run in the Coca-Cola®
Schools T20 Challenge by winning the Titans franchise final at Willowmoore Park
in Benoni on the 2nd March. They will once again represent the
Titans in the National Finals that they won in 2011. The schools that took part
in the Franchise final were Northerns: Hoërskool Waterkloof, Mpumalanga:
Cambride Academy, Limpopo: Hoërskool Ben Vorster and Easterns: Hoërskool Marais
Viljoen.
Cambride
Academy from Witbank won the toss and sent Hoërskool Waterkloof in to bat.
Waterkloof got off to a magnificent start and batted at over 10 runs an over
throughout their innings. Jordan Herman with 73 and S kemp with 48 runs got the
team to a mammoth 212/5 in their allotted 20 overs. Ricus Kram was the pick of
the bowlers with 2/39.
Cambridge’s
run chase did not start well as they lost wickets very quickly up front. Wesley
Vayani and Stefan Leemans tried to recover the innings and when Wesley went out
Rocco Gomes continued the recovery with Stefan Leemans. In the end, Cambridge
fell short by scoring only 90 all out with Stefan Leemans being the top batsman
with 35 runs. Hoërskool Waterkloof subsequently won by 122 runs.
Waterkloof
captain Jordan Hermann said, “Coca-Cola Schools T20 is a great tournament that
allows us to play against schools that we don’t normally get a chance to play
against and to play on larger fields so we can work on other parts to our
game.” He concluded “Today we upped our game and focused on starting
slowly and building an innings. That is where we improved the most since the
Northerns Provincial Final.”
All is
not lost for two of the Cambridge players, as they have been picked for the
Coca-Cola® All-Star team that will take part in the National Finals.
Wesley Vayani was picked for his match winning 59* in the semi-finals and Zuan
Swart was picked as a leg spinner by Proteas legend Paul Harris.
Wali
Vuyoni said, “To make the Coca-Cola® All-Star team is a good opportunity for me
to play with players that I normally don’t have a chance to play with. I can
measure myself to see how I perform compared to players from the rest of the
country.” Zuan Swart also shared, “I think that I will have a good opportunity
to improve my game by playing with other players from the Coca-Cola® All-Star
team.”
Paul
Harris commented on what he witnessed at the finals and the two players that he
chose for the Coca-Cola® All-Star team. “I was impressed by the
performance of all the teams today. Waterkloof have showed that they are going
to be a force at the Coca-Cola® T20 Challenge National Finals. The teams are
proving to want to be best in the country.”
The
Coca-Cola® All-Star team will get to meet the other qualifying teams, have
coaching sessions with Paul Harris and play against a Cricket South Africa
selection side as a curtain raiser to the final of the Coca-Cola® T20 Schools
Challenge.
Hoërskool Waterkloof will represent the Titans and they will
join the 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. The
eventual winners stand to walk off with R110 000 for their school.
Results
Semi Finals
Marais Viljoen 124 all out (Henko
Black 30, Jason van Dyk 28, Uzar Vayani 3/24, Zuan Swart 2/18) vs Cambridge
126/6 (Wali Vayani 59, Henko Black 2/24)
Cambridge won by 4 wickets
Waterkloof 187/9 (Jordan Hermann
55, Wehan van Rooyen 29, Ernst van der Schyff 3/28) vs Ben Vorster 89/9 (Cobus
Geldenhuys 32, Hardus Coetzer 3/8, Om Thakar 3/17)
Waterkloof won by 98 runs
Final
Waterkloof 212/5 (Jordan Hermann
73, SW Kemp 48) vs Cambridge 90 all out (Stefan Leemans 35, Simeon de Bruyn
3/9, Adi Mosehla 3/13)
Waterkloof won by 122 runs
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