Hoërskool Waterkloof win the Northerns Coca-Cola® T20 Schools Challenge Provincial Final

2011 champions, Hoërskool Waterkloof won the Northerns Coca-Cola® T20 Schools Challenge Provincial Finals and now stand the chance of representing the Titans at the Coca-Cola T20 Schools Challenge national finals that will be played between the 15^th and 17^th March 2019 in Pretoria.

This year’s provincial finals were played over two days with eight schools divided into two pools of play to represent their province in the Titans franchise final. The schools that made it were Hoërskool Garsfontein, Hoërskool Waterkloof, Prestige College and Cornwall Hill College who were in group A, while group B was made up by Pretoria Boys High, St Albans College, Midstream College and Hoërskool Centurion.

Hoërskool Waterkloof and Hoërskool Centurion won their respective groups and met each other in the final. Hoërskool Waterkloof beat Prestige College by 39 runs, Hoërskool Garsfontein by 22 runs and Cornwall Hill College by 8 wickets respectively to get to the final.

In the final, Hoërskool Centurion got off to a great start and had Hoërskool Waterkloof in trouble at 32/3 and 64/4 before Hoërskool Waterkloof fought back to post a very good total of 177 thanks to the 97 runs from Jordan Hermann who got  his century after batting nearly the entire innings.

Hoërskool Centurion came in to bat with Richardt Ackerman posting 26/3  and  Simeon de Bruyn posting 4/15 making sure that Centurion were never in the match and bowled them out for 136. Hoërskool Waterkloof won by 41 runs.

The winner of the Franchise finals 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

Group Stage:

Hoërskool Garsfontein 198/4 (C Meiring 95*, B van der Walt 50, K Ngwenya 2/37) vs Prestige College 85 all out (S Mothise 39, L Stigling 4/26, R van Niekerk 2/17)

Garsfontein won by 113 runs

Cornwall Hill College 141/4 (K de la Mare 67, K Rust 35, S de Bruyn 3/21) vs Hoërskool Waterkloof 144/2 (H Coetzer 48*, J Hermann 44*, T Khabele 2/20)

Waterkloof won by 8 wickets

Pretoria Boys 209/2 (W Truter 105, H Viljoen 62) vs Midstream College 109/7 (W Mushwana 2/13)

Pretoria Boys High won by 100 runs

Hoërskool Centurion 115/8 (H Jeeva 3/20) vs St Albans College 93/9 (J Eybers 2/9)

Centurion won by 22 runs

Hoërskool Waterkloof 144/9 (H Coetzer 35, D Koorts 2/18) vs Hoërskool Garsfontein 122 all out (E de Waal 49, A Maseshla 3/20)

Waterkloof won by 22 runs

Cornwall Hill College 208/1 (K Rust 95*, J Neil 91*) vs Prestige College 150/6 (T Baloyi 72, B Jansen 2/9)

Cornwall Hill won by 58 runs

Pretoria Boys 169/4 (A Schutte 61, T Ferguson 56*) vs Hoërskool Centurion 172/6 (C van den Heever 80, D van der Merwe 3/23)

Centurion won by 4 wickets

Cornwall Hill College 114/6 (J Neil 39, D Koorts 2/6) vs Hoërskool Garsfontein 115/6 (R van Niekerk 47*, P Trotter 2/21)

Garsfontein won by 4 wickets

Hoërskool Waterkloof 196/6 (S de Bruyn 54*, S Kemp 48, K Mphahlele 2/12) vs Prestige College 147/9 (S Mothise 36, K Verhoef 3/31, R Ackerman 3/31)

Waterkloof won by 49 runs

Pretoria Boys 193/6 (T Ferguson 69, N Meyer 58, B Leonard 3/13) vs St Albans College 58 all out (L Treadwell 3/1, R van Rooyen 3/3)

Pretoria Boys won by 135 runs

Midstream College 119/6 (D Esterhuizen 35, J Vorster 2/15) vs Hoërskool Centurion 120/3 (N Fox 50)

Centurion won by 7 wickets

Midstream College 121/8 (D Esterhuizen 43, A du Plessis 5/28) vs St Albans College 80 all out (D Esterhuizen 4/13)

Midstream won by 41 runs

Final

Hoërskool Waterkloof 177/8 (J Hermann 97, C Mouton 3/23, N Fox 3/37) vs Hoërskool Centurion 136 all out (N Fox 38, S de Bruyn 4/15, R Ackerman 3/26)

Waterkloof won by 41 runs.

COCA-COLA SCHOOLS T20 CHALLENGE HERO OF THE DAY (DAY 1)

Aiden van Wyk from Selborne College has been named the Coca-Cola Hero of the Day for day 1 of the Coca-Cola Schools T20 Challenge.

The prestigious Coca-Cola Hero of the Day award is presented on each day of the tournament in recognition of a game changing ‘hero’ moment. Aiden was selected for the award by a Coca-Cola appointed panel of cricket experts after taking 6/13 in his match against Prestige College.

“I am happy that I helped my team win the game. It is a team effort and each individual performance is combined to help the team reach their goal to win the match,” said Aiden after he received his reward.

“Taking 6 wickets in a T20 match is an unbelievable effort that does not happen every day. Aiden is only 15 years old, hopefully we will see some more stellar performances from him in the near future,” said Coca-Cola Hero of the Day lead judge Robin Peterson.

Aiden is now in line for the accolade of Coca-Cola Hero of the Tournament which will be announced on the 26^th March 2017.

Fetsi Mbele, Coca-Cola Southern & East Africa’s Senior Communications Manager: Brand Experience commented, “The Coca-Cola Schools T20 Challenge is Where Heroes Are Made.  For Aiden this is hopefully just the beginning of a future in the game.  On behalf of Coca-Cola I extend my congratulations, I can’t wait to follow his career going forward as he works towards becoming a hero of South African cricket. ”

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