AT least ten teams have signed up to play in the 2020\/21 \u2018practice\u2019 night cricket league games, which began on Monday, October 19 \u2013 and saw Buco in Humansdorp thump the reigning champions, The Farmers.<\/p>\n
The night cricket league games will continue every Monday and Wednesday, weather and Eskom permitting.<\/p>\n
The first practice game of the season was between the All Bats and Build It.<\/p>\n
Winning the toss, The All Bats were the first to bat and scored 81 runs for the loss of six wickets.<\/p>\n
Warren Manser showed a lot of new heart and reached double figures (10) for the first time this year, while teammate, Warren Knezovich, chipped in with 13 runs.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, Roland Peacock started off the new season with a duck.<\/p>\n
Build It\u2019s best bowler was Charl du Toit who took two wickets for seven runs.<\/p>\n
In response, Build It could only score 74 runs.<\/p>\n
Du Toit top scored with 15 and Stefnus Schoeman helped with 13.<\/p>\n
Captain Corrie Beer got his season off to a disastrous start with the first golden duck, while Willem Barnard surprised his All Bats teammates by taking two wickets.<\/p>\n
Monday\u2019s second game saw SummerTree batting first against Tsitsikamma and scoring 81 runs.<\/p>\n
The only batsman of note was Dean Rohbeck who scored 16 runs.<\/p>\n
Captain Merwe van Niekerk also scored a duck, but he was outdone by Eben Bezuidenhout with a golden duck.<\/p>\n
Tsitsikamma knocked off the winning runs in the last over for the loss of only two wickets; those wickets being Twix with a duck and Pottie Potgieter who got the third golden duck of the evening.<\/p>\n
Wednesday\u2019s first game was Buco against reigning champions, The Farmers.<\/p>\n
Matt Eekhout\u2019s 23 runs helped The Farmers reach a total of 86 for the loss of six wickets from their 11 overs.<\/p>\n
Two players from The Farmers added their names to the duck register, namely Dean Biggs and Brad Balantyne.<\/p>\n
Buco surprised The Farmers, and the whole cricket world, by scoring a leg bye off the very last ball of the match to win by two wickets.<\/p>\n
This was despite Vlam Michau making a return to night league cricket, after an absence of about 12 years, and recording bowling figures of three wickets for 10 runs.<\/p>\n
The final game of the first week saw The Pinters win the toss which allowed them to bat first against The Golden Ducks.<\/p>\n
They scored an impressive 125 runs for the loss of only four wickets.<\/p>\n
The top scorer was once again Nappy Heyns with 20 runs and Tiaan Moore scored 18, while Herman Kleinhans scored a duck.<\/p>\n
Golden Duck\u2019s best bowler was Gert Strydom who took two wickets for seven runs.<\/p>\n
At the other end of the scale were Hennie Vermaak and Jaco Zietsman, who each conceded 17 runs from their over.<\/p>\n
The Ducks responded with 80 runs for the loss of nine wickets.<\/p>\n
Kobus Van Eden top scored with 17, while Hennie and Johan Greyling failed to bother the scoreboard.<\/p>\n
The Pinters\u2019 captain, Helgard Du Preez, led the bowling attack by taking two wickets for only one run.<\/p>\n
Charl Malan, however, started his new season by bowling five wides in his over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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