Stuurman five star heroics with the ball helps Boland cross over the line against Warriors

Glenton Stuurman brilliant five wicket haul helped the Goldrush Boland claim a 11-run win in their CSA T20 Challenge match against the Dafabet Warriors at Eurolux Boland Park, Paarl on Wednesday.

The 32-year Stuurman picked up career T20 best figures of 5-33 which included a hattrick in the 18th to help Boland bowl the Warriors for 160 in their chase of 172 runs.

In the 18th over, with the Warriors needing 18 off 10 balls and Patrick Kruger hitting the Boland bowlers in all parts of the ground, Stuurman put on his superhero cape and bowled Andile Mogakane(9) and Liam Alder, Siya Semetu for golden ducks.

Kruger who was dropped twice in the 16th over was eventually dismissed by Ayabulela Gqamane for a brilliant 51 run off 28 balls knock after he mis-timed shot to deep backward point and was caught by Clyde Fortuin.

Earlier, in the evening the captain Fortuin scored a well calculated 50 runs off 35 balls which included three sixes, and three boundaries to help his side register the decent first innings of 171-6.

Chasing the highest total on the ground in the campaign, Warriors pursuit got off the worst after Stuurman trapped their opener JP King LBW for a single in the first over and then knocked Beyers Swanepoel (15) over with a yorker in the 3rd over.

Keith Dudgeon sent Jordan Hermann (19) packing to the dressing room after he thick edged his shot to Ayabonga Gqamane at deep backward point.

Wickets continue to tumble for the away team even after powerplay as Sinethemba Qeshile(4) was run out by Siyabonga Mahima, leaving the Warriors 54-4 after seven overs.

Jiveshan Pillay and Jean du Plessis notched 38 runs for sixth wicket partnership, before Pillay was knocked over by Gqamane for 17 runs in the 12th over. Three over Du Plessis(34) was another victim of Gqamane but caught at deep backward square leg by Aviwe Mgijima.

Boland finished the first power play 61/0 at a run rate of 10.17 and looked set for a projected score of 230 after electing to bat first in a Boland slow surface.

The 29-year-old Fortuin shared an opening stand of 71 runs with Grant Roelofsen.

Warriors captain Simetu turned to the left arm spin Alder in the sixth over to counter Boland quick start and introduced himself the next over, of which picked up the wicket of Roelofsen after having him caught at cover by Patrick Kruger for 26 runs.

Alder broke through new batsman Gavin Kaplan's defense and bowled him for just three runs in the eight over. From the 8th over till the 12th, Boland managed to get only two boundaries as Simetu and Alder dried up the runs with their impressive spell of spin.

The continuous pressure from the Warriors duo led to Alder's second scalp of the evening, that of big fish Fortuin just after he reached his fifty runs. Alder bowled Fortuin trying to cut a length ball in the third ball of the 12th over leaving Boland 105-3.

Mgijima and Lehan Botha tried accelerating Boland's scoring rate, but they only managed to add 33 runs to the score with their partnership.

Mgijima mis-timed his short of the bowling of Patrick Kruger and was caught brilliantly by a sprinting Beyers Swanepoel at mid-on for a slow 40 runs off 30 balls in the 17th over.

Shaun von Berg (6) had a short stay at the crease after being run out by Jiveshan Pillay in the third ball of 18th over. Three balls later Mothoa had Lehan Botha (18) caught at long off by Mokgakane after toeing his half volley.

Keith Dudgeon hit Swanepoel for 17 runs in the 19th over and helped Boland reach the target.

GOLDRUSH BOLAND: Grant Roelofsen (wk), Clyde Fortuin(capt), Gavin Kaplan, Aviwe Mgijima, Lehan Botha, Shaun von Berg, Keith Dudgeon, Glenton Stuurman, Imraan Manack, Ayabulela Gqamane, Siyabonga Mahima

DAFABET WARRIORS: JP King, Jordan Hermann, Jiveshan Pillay, Jean du Plessis (wk), Sinethemba Qeshile, Patrick Kruger, Andile Mokgakane. Beyers Swanepoel, Liam Alder, Siya Simetu (capt), Alfred Mothoa