Cricket teams do battle

POLOKWANE – Premier league club cricket log leaders, Eagles A, cemented their place on top of the log by winning their match on Sunday against the Hornbills Cricket Club from Tzaneen.

Eagles A won the toss and elected to bat first at the Polokwane Cricket Club’s A-field.

It was with a great effort with the bat that Pieter Haasbroek helped lay the foundation for Eagles A’s 28 run victory. Haasbroek contributed 63 runs from 69 balls, which included eight fours and one six.

Bradley Pieterse with his 32 runs along with Pedri de Kock on 44 runs and Ruan Willemse with his 43 runs also played a vital part in setting up a total of 281 runs for Hornbills to chase down, for the loss of seven wickets.

The B-field of the Polokwane Cricket Club was a battlefield for the visiting Phalaborwa side against Polokwane outfit, Aces Cricket Club.

Phalaborwa went in to bat and the devastation by opening bowlers Jacobsz and Henk Holtzhausen left the visitor’s batsmen wandering.

Phalaborwa was bundled all out for a meagre 39 runs after 16 overs.

Jacobsz claimed six wickets for 31 runs in his bowling spell of eight overs, which included two maiden overs.

Holtzhausen applied the pressure from the other end by taking two wickets for just from eight overs, conceding only eight runs. His bowling included four maiden overs.

Fielders Amie Smit and Haccum Hough contributed to the fall of the Phalaborwa batsmen with two excellent run-outs by each of them.

In reply the Aces batsmen, who were licking their lips at chasing down this small target set by Phalaborwa, had an unsettling start with opening batsman Andy Müller walking back to the dressing room for a duck after he was bowled out. Hough made eight runs.

That left Smit with 20 runs not out and Wayne Weller-Blabber with nine runs not out, to secure the winning runs for the team.