WESTERN PROVINCE v TITANS
Cape Town: Duan Jansen stood tall and registered his career-best bowling figures in the Momentum Multiply Titans’ comfortable nine-wicket win over WSB Western Province in their CSA 4-Day Series match at Newlands on Thursday.
Neil Brand, the Titans’ captain, won the toss and elected to bowl first on Monday.
His bowlers pulled together and bowled Western Province out for 241. In that innings, Jansen claimed three wickets for 73 runs in 14 overs.
His economy was marginally higher than Junior Dala’s. The seasoned pacer was the pick of the bowlers for the visitors with three wickets for 45 runs in 10 overs.
Rivaldo Moonsamy (90) and Lhuan-dre Pretorius (54) led the charge for the Titans in their reply. Their efforts helped the visitors score 306 runs in the second innings.
Jansen improved on his first-innings showing and ripped through Western Province’s batting line-up on his way to a fourth first-class five-wicket haul.
The left-hander took five wickets for 59 runs in 15.4 overs. He finished the match with eight wickets for 132 runs in 29.4 overs. His effort helped bowl Western Province out for 228 runs.
Kyle Simmonds provided some resistance with a brisk unbeaten 72 from 89 balls, but his effort didn’t take them far.
Joshua van Heerden (48) and Kyle Verreynne (45) were the only other batters who developed a foothold in the third innings.
Lesego Senokwane and Neil Brand made things look easy with their unbroken 153-run second-wicket partnership for the Titans in the fourth innings.
They steered the visitors to 164-1 and victory. Senokwane finished the match unbeaten on 86 from 131 balls and Brand was on 65 not out from 91 deliveries.
BOLAND v DRAGONS
Paarl: Gavin Kaplan scored a sensational unbeaten century that carried Goldrush Boland to a five-wicket win over the Eastvaal Renault Dragons at Boland Park.
Kaplan worked his way to a brilliant 144 not out from 201 deliveries to lead Boland to 323-5 in the fourth innings.
This is Kaplan's seventh first-class century. He faced 156 deliveries to reach the milestone.
His 69-run partnership with Van Briesies, who galloped to 47 runs from 42 balls, took the hosts to within 17 runs of victory.
The Dragons, who won the toss and chose to bat first, put 434 runs on the board courtesy of Dian Forrester’s unbeaten 123 from 188 balls.
Aviwe Mgijima was the pick of the bowlers for Boland; he finished the innings with five wickets for 97 runs in 26.4 overs.
Lehan Botha answered Forrester’s century with a wonderful 139 from 189 balls as he led Boland to 416 runs in their reply.
Blayde Capell (77) and Clyde Reeves-Fortuin (66) chipped in with half-centuries.
Caleb Seleka, who took six wickets for 99 runs, was the Dragons’ best bowler in the innings.
Mgijima reprised his role as Boland’s chief destroyer with the ball in the third innings. He took four wickets for 76 runs to help put pressure on the visitors.
The Dragons felt they had enough runs on the board and declared on 304-9. They got there courtesy of Rubin Hermann’s well-played 101 runs from 135 balls.
Instead of playing for a draw, Boland went after the 323-run target. Blayde Capell, who scored a 96-ball 63, was one of the main contributors in the chase.
DOLPHINS v WARRIORS
Kingsmead: Semal Pillay’s confident maiden first-class century helped the Hollywoodbets Dolphins secure a two-wicket win over the Dafabet Warriors at Kingsmead.
Pillay, who was appearing in his fourth first-class encounter, scored 111 runs from 163 balls to put the hosts in a position to get to 370-8 in the fourth innings to claim victory.
The 18-year-old faced 149 deliveries to register his maiden century.
The Dolphins, who won the toss and elected to bowl first, bowled the Warriors out for 380 runs.
Tristan Luus starred with the ball for them by taking five wickets for 77 runs in 20.3 overs. This is his second five-wicket haul.
Senuran Muthusamy scored a steady 144-ball 113 runs for the visitors.
Gideon Peters matched Luus’s brilliance with the ball with a five-wicket haul for the Warriors in the Dolphins’ reply.
The pacer took five wickets for 67 runs in 14 overs to help the Warriors restrict the Dolphins to 253.
The Warriors declared the third innings closed after they had put 237-5 on the board.
The visitors, who felt that they had a winning total, still had Matthew Breetzke unbeaten on 91 when they declared.
The declaration left the hosts in need of 365 runs to win. The Dolphins cantered to 370, striking a six off the last ball, to claim victory.