Casais shows maturity in Jeppe’s win over SACS
Lincoln Casais performed an outstanding rescue job to lead Jeppe to a five-wicket win over South Africa College High School (SACS) in their 50-over contest on the AH Childe Oval at Jeppe on Sunday.
The win was the Black Caps‘ second in two days, following an outstanding victory over Waterkloof on Saturday in a 50-over match. It also stopped SACS’s strong run on the highveld. The Capetonians had defeated Steyn City by six wickets in a T20 match on Friday and then edged out St Stithians College by five runs in a limited-overs match on Saturday.
In Sunday’s game, SACS won the toss and elected to bat first. They battled their way to 194 all out in 38.4 overs. Jeppe, in reply, needed a handful more deliveries to reach the target, tallying 196/5 in 39.1 overs.
Casais led the way, scoring an unbeaten 93 from 113 balls, with seven fours and a six.
When he arrived at the crease, Jeppe was in a spot of bother. They had lost two wickets in six deliveries and were floundering on 9/2 after 2.5 overs. Demonstrating good maturity, Casais went with the ebbs and flows of the match, adopting a circumspect approach when the situation demanded it and accelerating when appropriate.
He helped to stem the slide with a 20-run third-wicket partnership with Aiden Reyneke. Then, he joined forces with his captain, Ryan Young, for a match-winning 99-run fourth-wicket stand. Young, who scored an unbeaten century in a midweek T20 game, contributed a valuable 57 from 70 balls.
Casais was also part of two other notable partnerships: he added 33 runs for the fifth wicket with Goolam Ahmed (14) and shared an unbroken 35-run sixth-wicket partnership with Vegas Scott (13*).
Earlier in the day, Shreshth Kumar starred with the ball for Jeppe, snaring 4/41 in eight overs. Included in that haul were the wickets of the SACS openers, Aqeel Waggie (30) and Benji Tilbury (37), who have given the visitors a solid 68-run opening stand. Their dismissals led to a downward spiral from which the visitors failed to recover.
Jordan Berry, who top-scored for SACS with 49 from 56 balls, did his best to keep his side in the contest, but, in the end, his effort was in vain. He was a victim of Zizi Mkhize in the 30th over, with Mkhize going on to record Jeppe’s second-best return of 2/22 from six overs.
With some midweek assignments awaiting them, victory over SACS was a welcome morale boost for the Black Caps.
St Stithians vs SACS
On Saturday, SACS tasted sweet success when Ronan Meintjies pulled a rabbit out of a hat to help the touring side snatch victory from the jaws of defeat at St Stithians College. His dramatic late-innings heroics resulted in a nail-biting four-run win for the visitors.
After Ulrich Roth, the SACS captain, won the toss and chose to bat first, his side responded well to score 268/6 in 50 overs. The Saints‘ reply came within a whisker of a win, but the hosts fell at the final hurdle, bowled out for 264 in 47.2 overs.
With St Stithians poised to claim a hard-fought win, Meintjies produced two perfect balls to dismiss Zaakir Hanslo (34) and Nqaba Matunda (0) in consecutive deliveries, and victory went to the visitors. Hanslo was the key wicket for SACS. The all-rounder had raced to 34 runs in only 25 balls and looked comfortable at the crease.
With those two scalps, Meintjies finished the contest with a match-winning 5/51 from 9.2 overs. Abhay Kalan impressed, too, with 3/41 from 10 overs, while Saeed Conrad picked up 1/46 from seven overs.
Matthew Katzenstein (77) and Nicholas Bayly (53) scored superb half-centuries from the middle order to keep the hosts in the contest after a disastrous start. But only Didier Le Roux, with 35, also reached double figures.
Earlier in the day, Mickey Watson and Max Fourie boosted SACS with half-centuries from the lower order. Batting at seven and eight, they shared an unbroken 100-run partnership to see the Capetonians to a competitive total.
Fourie struck a belligerent 51 not out in a 35-ball stay, while Watson tallied an unbeaten 50 from 45 balls. Aqeel Waggie (48), Litha Kraai (32), Ulrich Roth (23), and Jordan Berry (22) also contributed valuable runs to the SACS cause.
Summarised Scorecards
SACS 194/10 (Jordan Berry 49, Benji Tilbury 37; Shreshth Kumar 4/41, Zizi Mkhize 2/22). Jeppe 196/5 (Lincoln Casais 93*, Ryan Young 57; Ronan Meintjies 2/38, Abhay Khalan 1/28). Jeppe won by five wickets.
SACS 268/6 (Max Fourie 51*, Mickey Watson 50*; Nqaba Matunda 2/34, Tajandra Naidu 1/29). St Stithians 264/10 (Matthew Katzenstein 77, Nicholas Bayly 53; Ronan Meintjies 5/51, Abhay Kalan 3/41). SACS won by four runs.
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