Northerns dominate Momentum u.17 cricket week
Several annual schools cricket weeks were abandoned due to rain at the end of last year, but in the Eastern Cape at the national u.17 week for boys there was action and the team of Northerns ended the week unbeaten.
A half-century from Tim Ferguson and another superb bowling display from Jan Hendrik Coetzer helped Northerns confirm their hundred percent record at the 2019 Momentum under-17 boys week with a sixth victory over Eastern Province in Port Elizabeth late in December last year.
On the final day of the u.17 national tournament, the second round of 50-over matches saw Western Province bounce back from the disappointment of losing against Northerns to defeat the Central Gauteng Lions. Free State, KwaZulu-Natal Inland, North West and Limpopo also ended the Week on a winning note.
The matches involving Boland, KwaZulu-Natal Coastal, Eastern Cape Invitational and South Western Districts were abandoned due to rain and wet outfields across the respective grounds.
Despite the unofficial final – hosted at Woodridge College’s main field – also being interrupted by the rain, Northerns had their in-form batsman, Ferguson, to thank as they were crowned champions after a 33-run win on the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern method. The right-hander notched up a crucial 58 off 108 balls to anchor his side’s innings, before Lungelo Khoba’s destructive 40-ball 53 propelled the team from Pretoria to 205/8.
Although they outscored Gauteng on Day 4, EP’s batsmen couldn’t replicate their form against Northens this time around as Coetzer led from the front with the ball, taking four wickets for 32 runs in his 10 overs to restrict the chasers to 173 all out.
Coetzer was ably supported by Letsolo Selemela (2/28), Dewald Brevis (2/28) and Conrad Mouton (2/28).
WP’s Curran finished the Momentum u.17 Boys Week as the leading runs scorer with a dominant batting average of 104.5 following his 418 runs in six outings, including one hundred and three fifties.
The 19 wickets in five matches at an average of 7.2 from Christoffel Kotze from Easterns was enough to see him end as the tournament’s top wicket-taker over Northerns’ Jan Hendrik Coetzer, who took 17 scalps in his six encounters.
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