Huge first innings score enough to help Titans to maiden 4-Day Domestic Series victory
After a slow start in the 4-Day Domestic Series with one defeat and one draw, the Titans showed what they are capable of against WP in Cape Town last week, when they gave the Capetonians a proper hiding.
The Momentum Multiply Titans opened their account in the wins column with a comprehensive defeat of the Western Province by an innings and 139 runs in the third round of the Cricket South Africa (CSA) 4-Day Domestic Series Division One in Cape Town on Sunday.
With five second inning wickets required to win the match at the start of the day’s play, Titans all-rounder Neil Brand helped seal the victory with three morning session scalps to restrict Western Province’s follow-on to 313 all out, still 139 runs short of the away side’s considerable first innings score of 647 / 7.
The Titans boasted four centuries in that huge first innings they scored. Both the men in light blue’s opening batsmen, Grant Mokoena (154 off 291 balls) and Dean Elgar (117 off 159 balls) scored hundreds and with that also established a huge first wicket partnership of 231 on which the rest of the team could build.
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After that, two tail-end batsmen, Jiveshan Pillay (113 off 186 balls) and Ayabulela Gqamane (117 off 143 balls) also reached this milestone. In fact, Pillay and Gqamane were both unbeaten and still at the crease when captain Neil Brand declared with the score at 647/7.
Having been forced to follow-on after being dismissed for 195 in response to the Titans’ daunting score, Western Province fared better in their second innings to reach the end of day three on 260 / 5 but still 192 runs behind.
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On the final day, Brand (3/71) and in-form spinner, Simon Harmer (3/149) snuffed out any chances of a comebackGrant Mokoena from Province, as the pair combined for four lower-order wickets to wrap up the positive result away from home, despite a fighting 42 off 25 balls from Basheeru Walters.
The fourth round of the CSA 4-Day Domestic Series gets underway from 25-28 November, with four Division One matches to wrap up the month of November.
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