Halfway through the Momentum one-day series, the Titans are currently in a disappointing fourth place on the log, after mixed results in their games last week.

Albie Morkel and his teammates could only win two games in the first phase of the competition. This tournament is now interrupted until the end of January 2016 and several other cricket action will meanwhile take place.

There are, amongst other things, the local T20 series, the Ram Slam T20 Cricket Challenge, which begins this weekend.

The Titans’ very good win by 7 wickets over the Dolphins last Wednesday, gave hope to their fans that they eventually found their rhythm. The young Greame van Buuren’s 84 runs from 71 balls was a notable highlight and it reaffirmed the men from Centurion’s depth.

Sunday in Kimberley the Knighs again uncovered the Titans as a team who does not like to bat first. Werner Coetsee, captain of the Knights, won the toss and sent the Titans to bat first. Only Heino Kuhn (55), who is once again in brilliant form, scored more than 50 runs.

Morkel’s 40 off 29 balls at the end of the innings was also a good attempt to make the score look respectable.

The Knights, however, managed to bowl them all out in the 49th over for only 242 runs. This was never enough and there was great pressure on the Titans bowlers to try and defend this total.

Morkel used seven bowlers to perform the task, but ultimately it was not possible. However, they tried hard and except for Junior Dala and Rowan Richards all the bowlers managed to concede less than six runs per over.

Although the Knights’ batsmen had to work hard for the victory, they could eventually pass the Titans’ total in the 48th over.

As defending champions the Titans’ fans obviously expect much more of them than the mediocre performance in the first half of this series. Therefore they will have to be much better in the second half of the current Momentum one-day series when the tournament continue at the end of January 2016.