Fifth victory for Kempton’s U/10A1 side

THREE of the four teams of Kempton Park Junior Cricket Club won their matches at the weekend.

U/8A beat Boksburg by 35 runs. Batting first, Kempton scored 97/8 with Ethan Muller 14, Troy Gordon 12 and man of the match recipient Guillaume Botha 17.

In their reply, Boksburg responded with 62/7 with Jack Cannon taking 2/7, Ethan James and Guillaume Botha each taking 1/3.

U/8B1 narrowly lost to United in a closely contested match. United batted first, scoring 99/4 in the allotted 25 overs.

Joshua Venter took 2/2 and also contributed 18 runs during the chase. Kian Patterson assisted with his 18 runs.

However, Kempton fell painfully short coming down to the last ball of the match and lost by one run.

U/10 super league defeated Champions by 84 runs after a delayed start due to a wet pitch. Kempton batted first with Connor le Grange scoring his first club 50 (57*), assisted by Joshua Shanker who made 62*.

The bowlers offered support by restricting the run rate with Kaeden Naidu taking 2/5 and an excellent 4/8 by Uveshan Moodley. Christiaan Kloppers and Eric Southey chipped in with a wicket each.

U/10A1 proved victorious over Benoni Northerns. Winning the toss and electing to field first, Kempton restricted Benoni Northerns to 73 all out inside of 20 overs. Top bowling saw Brent Kotze with 1/13, Garth van Deventer with 2/11 and Armandt Botha with 2/8, ably assisted by Mckenzie Ross, who was responsible for two spectacular run outs.

In their reply Kempton set up the victory with a steady partnership between man of the match Stian de Villiers 21* and Ruben Hanekom 18*, winning by eight wickets with five overs to spare.

This was the team’s fifth consecutive victory.