Eagle Solar and Sky Rockets on top Standerton’s business cricket league
One of the winning team’s batsmen had a field day with Petrus Matthee scoring 117 of 54 deliveries.
Spring was in the air for the cricketers at the Piet van den Berg-oval on Sunday, September 4 when two matches in the business league were played.
In the first match, Eagle Solar beat Holmdene by a whopping nine wickets, scoring 45/1 in 3.3 overs.
Holmdene only managed 42/10 in 13.1 overs.
They opted to bat and the bowling attack had Boy Qutello taking three wickets, conceding three runs, Iain Patullo taking three wickets, conceding 10 runs and Ryno Prinsloo taking one wicket.
Billy Lyons made 10 runs of 16 deliveries, PJ Venter nine runs of 18 deliveries and André Schwab seven runs of 12 deliveries.
Eagle Solar’s batsmen faced Venter, who took one wicket, conceding 31 runs and Carus Janse van Rensburg, who conceded 14 runs.
Riaad made 32 runs of 11 deliveries, Prinsloo four runs of three deliveries and Estienne du Toit four runs of seven deliveries.
In the second match, Sky Rockets beat Blue Bottle Barbarians by six wickets.
The final score for Sky Rockets was 185/4 in 19.1 overs, while their opponents had to be satisfied with 183/7.
Blue Bottle Barbarians opted to bat and Michael Hobkirk took two wickets, conceding 30 runs, Marco Meintjies one wicket, conceding nine runs and Dillon one wicket, conceding 19 runs.
Hendré Naudé’s batting figures were 81 of 38 deliveries, Solly van Rensburg 26 of 21 deliveries and Ricus van den Hoven 20 of 16 deliveries.
One of the winning team’s batsmen had a field day with Petrus Matthee scoring 117 of 54 deliveries, Douglas Richardson 29 of 25 deliveries and Hobkirk 10 of 13 deliveries.
Jan-Dirk van Dyk took two wickets, conceding 40 runs, Quintin Kruger one wicket, conceding 21 runs and Johardt Swanepoel one wicket, conceding 48 runs.
