Northerns win Khaya Majola Week final
NORTHERNS won the main match against Free State at the Coca-Cola Khaya Majola Week by eight wickets via the Duckworth/Lewis method yesterday.
The rain-affected final had the Pretoria side’s 100-run target revised to 97 in 46 overs after winning the toss and putting the home side in to bat first in Bloemfontein.
Ruan de Swardt (3/15) and Beyers Swanepoel (3/16) were the pick of the bowlers, taking six wickets between them. Donovan Ferreira added 2/11 to bundle Free State out for 100. Only Raynard van Tonder (28) managed to cross the 20-run mark.
The Northerns response was rattled slightly by the loss of opener Nhlanhla Mofokeng for four, but his partner, Tshepo Motaung (48no), and Joshua van Heerden (26) shared a match-winning 72-run partnership for the second wicket.
Ivan Kriek added five unbeaten runs to hold the fort as Motaung hit the winning boundary. They won with 145 balls to spare.
At the Central University of Technology, Jarryd Lookwhy and Matthew Breetzke scored 134 and 101 to set up a 70-run victory via D/L for Eastern Province over Easterns.
EP set the opposition a 337-run target, with a respective 31 and 29 runs chipped in by Adrian Leibrandt and Jonathan Crankshaw. Nyiko Baloyi led the Easterns attack, taking 3/87.
They could not match up to a rampant bowling attack led by Lutho Sipamla (4/49). Justin Derick, Jarred Alder and Brandon Harwood top scored with 61, 41 and 40 respectively, but it was nowhere near the revised target of 316.
In other matches affected by the rain, Border ended the tournament on a high, beating Western Province by 27 runs.
Namibia suffered a 94-run defeat to KwaZulu-Natal Inland thanks to an unbeaten 138 from Jiveshan Pillay and 50s by Matthew Dicks (59) and Sean Gilson (52).
North West clinched a 13-run, D/L win over KZN, Mpumalanga fell to Northern Cape by 83 runs (via D/L method) and Limpopo came out on top in their fixture against South Western Districts, sneaking a two-run win.