Dolphins top after beating Knights
● The Dolphins are up and running in the CSA T20 Challenge after they notched up their second win of the tournament with a four-wicket win over the Knights at Kingsmead yesterday.
They started with a win over the Cobras on Friday and this one over the Knights has propelled them to the top of the pile and made them early favourites for the knockout stages.
Knights, who won the toss and elected to bat, reached 144/5 in their 20 overs with captain Pite van Biljon top scoring with an unbeaten 72 off 54, followed by Migael Pretorius with 38.
The main destroyers for the Dolphins with ball in hand were Keshav Maharaj and Robbie Frylinck who ended with two wickets apiece with Eathan Bosch taking the other.
In reply, the Dolphins encountered teething problems with the early loss of Sarel Erwee (17), Senuran Muthusamy (8) and Grant Roelofsen (21) but David Miller and Khaya Zondo held things together in the middle stages.
Dolphins’ run chase was rocked when Miller (29) and Mangaliso Mosehle (1) were removed in quick succession by Alfred Mothoa to leave them stuttering on 86/5 after 12 overs.
The Dolphins were frustrated by the bowling of Mothoa (2/37), Ferisco Adams (2/26), Shaun von Berg (1/19) and Migael Pretorius (1/26) but Zondo
(31) and Frylinck (24) guided them to the finishing line on 145/6 and 11 balls to spare.
With the bat, Knights started in the worst possible way with Maharaj trapping Patrick Kruger (0) and Andries Gous (0) in front with the first and the third balls of the match respectively.
It got worse for the Knights a few overs later when Frylinck removed Jacques Snyman and Farhaan Behardien in quick succession to leave the Knights on 21/4.
Van Biljon and Adams went on the rebuilding job in the middle overs but their promising partnership was broken when the latter was bowled by Bosch.
Van Biljon embarked on another partnership of 75 off 36 with Pretorius (38) in the closing stages of their innings when the Knights managed to squeeze 68 runs in the last five overs.
The Dolphins are back in action on Sunday against the Warriors while the Knights are up against the Cobras on Monday.