DAY 2: Western Province take slight lead over Titans at tea

World Sports Betting Western Province edged slightly ahead of the Momentum Multipluy Titans, as they reached 250 all out at tea on day two of their CSA 4-Day series clash at SuperSport Park in Centurion on Friday afternoon.

It is a 25 run lead over the Titans 225 all out in their first innings on day one, and the hosts will have mixed feelings after they initial did well to limit the damage, but allowed an 18-run last wicket stand to dent their fightback.

Province started the post lunch session on 151/5 and George Linde (51) and Mihlali Mpongwana (24) combined for a 64-run sixth wicket partnership to put the visitors on top.

However as they were approaching the Titans total Mpongwana fell, Junior Dala making the breakthrough with him caught by Keegan Petersen, leaving them on 215/6.

Linde continued on to a solid half century and took his side past the Titans score, but then lost three wickets for four runs as Dala trapped Linde LBW, and captain Neil Brand bowled Mthiwekhaya Nabe (1) and Onke Nyaku (5), as Province tumbled to 232/9.

Jody Lawrence (8) and Dane Paterson (10no) then added a few valuable runs to the score before Lawrence was caught by Dayyaan Galiem off the bowling of Matthew Boast to end the innings.

Dala, 4/53, was the pick of the bowlers and was backed up well by Boast, 3/57, and Brand, 2/13.

In the morning session the visitors resumed their first innings on 86/2, starting carefully with Eddie Moore and David Bedingham (28) making very slow progress.

Having extended their third wicket stand to 17-runs, and crossed the hundred run mark, Moore was the first wicket to fall on the day, bowled by Boast after taking 57 balls to score just six runs.

Bedingham and captain Kyle Verreynne (13) added 19 to the score, before Boast was back in the action, catching Verreynne off his own bowling to reduce Province to 122/4.

Linde and Bedingham then tried to take their side safely to lunch, but on the stroke of the break Bedingham’s careful innings came to it’s end as he edged Dala to keeper Lhuan-dre Pretorius, leaving Province slightly on top.

MOMENTUM MULTIPLY TITANS: Joshua van Heerden, Neil Brand (capt), Keegan Petersen, Dewald Brevis, Lhuand-dre Pretorius, Rivaldo Moonsamy (wk), Andile Phehlukwayo, Dayyaan Galiem, Junior Dala, Matthew Boast, Tsepo Ndwandwa

WSB WESTERN PROVINCE: Eddie Moore, Tony de Zorzi, David Bedingham, Daniel Smith, Kyle Verreynne (capt, wk), George Linde, Mihlali Mpongwana, Onke Nyaku, Mothiwekhaya Nabe, Jody Lawrence, Dane Paterson