Day 3: Hermann's century keeps Warriors in the hunt

Jordan Hermann registered his fourth first-class century as he battled to keep the Dafabet Warriors in the contest on day three of their CSA 4-Day Series match against Goldrush Boland at Boland Park on Saturday. 

At stumps, the Warriors were on 187/2, still trailing the hosts by 150 runs with eight wickets in hand.

They were asked to follow-on by Boland after they had recorded a first-innings score of 163 in reply to Boland's mammoth 500-run first-innings total.

The Warriors had Hermann (109*) and Matthew de Villiers (25*) at the crease at the close of play.

Hermann agonisingly fell one run short of a century last week when they hosted the Renault Potchefstroom North West Dragons at Dafabet St George's Park.

The opener did not make the same mistake as he converted his half-century to triple figures this time around.

The 22-year-old faced 203 deliveries to reach the milestone. Another landmark he achieved was reaching and passing 1 600 first-class runs.

He kept a steady strike rate throughout his innings.

Hermann faced 99 balls to get to 50 and faced a further 104 deliveries to accumulate the second half-ton.

Hermann kept his side in the match through three crucial partnerships. The first was a 63-run opening stand with Jean du Plessis, then he added 57 runs to the total when he joined forces with his captain, Matthew Breetzke, and finally his unbroken 67-run partnership with De Villiers.

HERO WITH THE BALL

Jevano Baron and Keith Dudgeon were Boland's wicket-takers in the Warriors' second innings with a wicket each.

However. the home side's hero with the ball on day three was Shaun von Berg.

The 38-year-old spinner was sensational as the hosts bowled out the visitors for less than 200 runs in their first innings.

Shaun von Berg registered his career-best first-class bowling figures of eight wickets for 54 runs in 21.4 overs.

These are his best bowling figures in first-class cricket, outperforming his previous best of 7-66. This is also the legspinner's 28th five-wicket haul.

BOLAND: Grant Roelofsen, Pieter Malan, Gavin Kaplan, Aviwe Mgijima, Clyde Fortuin (capt)(wk), Michael Copeland, Shaun von Berg, Keith Dudgeon, Jevano Baron, Ayabulela Gqamane, Glenton Stuurman

WARRIORS: Jordan Hermann, Jean du Plessis, Matthew Breetzke (capt), Matthew de Villiers, Sinethemba Qeshile (wk), Senuran Muthusamy, Andile Mogakane, Ethan Frosler, Duanne Olivier, Jason Raubenheimer, Siyabulela Plaatjie.