Michaelhouse and Westville still unbeaten in PMB
The four sides that continued to stand out on day three of Oppenheimer Week, hosted as always by Maritzburg College in the KZN capital, were Affies, KES, Michaelhouse and Westville, who kept up their 100% win records.
Coach Alan Norton’s impressive Durban High School lads saw their two-match winning streak come unstuck when they went down by five wickets to the lads from St Johns in Johannesburg at that outstanding pitch curator Dave Evans’ splendid Varsity Oval.
Affies, the most experienced side at Oppenheimer Week in respect of the number of appearances by their players at this celebrated festival of schoolboy cricket, continued to plunder all before them - and after back-to-back eight-wicket wins, they proceeded to outplay Maritzburg College by 76 runs Monday on the hallowed turf of Goldstones that is looked after with such care by groundsman Dave Veitch and his worthy staff.
KES have conquered all before them and this time it was Hilton who felt the sharpness of King Edward’s blade, while KZN schools Michaelhouse and Westville continued their winning ways with crushing victories over St Stithians, and St Davids respectively.
Tuesday’s final round of matches will be played according to formats agreed to by the respective coaches of opposing teams. Some have opted to play T20 matches, others 35-over affairs or 50-over clashes.
One to look forward to in particular will be the Westville versus Affies dust-up at Varsity Oval. T20, 35-over or 50-over, it doesn’t really matter – this one shows all the signs of becoming a classic clash in keeping with the history of this magnificent festival that had its birth way back in 1959.
MONDAY SCORES IN BRIEF
DHS 211/6 (Tafara Mupariwa 59, Sibs Makhanya 51, Wade Canham 38). St Johns 212/5 (Jake Alfred 93*, Martyn Strydom 70). St Johns won by 5 wickets.
Michaelhouse 259 (Jason Marshall 85, Luke Stevens 40, Barrie Forrester-Smith 35; Brandon Glover 3-46). St Stithians 181 (Nic Hern 94, Juan Landsberg 33, Dale Beckley 3-27, Barrie Forrester-Smith 3-30). Michaelhouse won by 78 runs.
Northwood 181 (Rawdon Capell 55, Dale van der Merwe 38*; Hanco Olivier 3-40). Grey College 131 (Christiaan Steyn 42, Hanco Olivier 32; Nazeer Jaffa 3-19, Keegan Rawling 3-25). Northwood won by 50 runs.
Westville 246/4(Nicholas Pentz 83, Alexander Whitelaw 67, Luke Schlemmer 52*). St Davids 154 (Daniel Weisz 41; Luke Schlemmer 3/27, Sahil Rugbar 4/35). Westville won by 92 runs.
Glenwood 199/8 (Devon Landman 4-36). St Albans 187 (Jason Jenkins 44, Estiaan Kriek 44, Alstead Hulme 28). Glenwood won by 12 runs.
Hilton 174 (Jayden Broodryk 2-16, Brian Leitch 4-47, Akshay Maharaj 3-36). KES 176/4 (Tony de Zorzi 55, Kyle Melville 38*). KES won by 6 wickets.
Kearsney 108 (Ross Koekemoer 39; Dustin Melton 3-13). Pretoria Boys High 112/3 (Kevin Short 47*). PBHS won by 7 wickets.
Affies 212 (Ulrich Boezaart 89, Jaco Brink 32, David Small 3/34). Maritzburg College 136 (Shaun Wormington 49, Driaan Bruwer 3/23). Affies won by 76 runs.
Hudson Park 177 (Abongile Ntondini 62, Athi Mfazwe 27). St Charles 150 (Tim Niemand 3-25). Hudson Park won by 27 runs.
Fixtures for today:
DHS vs KES (Barns)
Glenwood vs St Johns (Collegians)
Hilton vs St Albans (PMB Oval)
Kearsney vs Hudson Park (Richmond)
Maritzburg College vs Pretoria Boys High (Goldstones)
Michaelhouse vs Grey College (Varsity 2)
Northwood vs St Stithians (Eston)
St Charles vs St Davids (St Charles Oval)
Westville vs Affies (Varsity Oval)
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