Kuijers’ five-wicket haul secures big win for KES
Connor Kuijers was in top form, bagging a five-wicket haul, to help King Edward VII (KES) to a comfortable 146-run win over St Andrew’s School in their 50-over encounter on the John Hurry Oval at KES on Sunday.
The contest against St Andrew’s was KES’s second of the weekend against a visiting Free State side. They faced Grey College on Saturday, but that match was abandoned due to lightning, 19 overs into the second innings.
In that game, Troy Gordon scored a fluent 105 to help the home side to 255/9. When play was stopped, Grey had stumbled to 79/5 in reply.
On Sunday, Matthew Bromley, the KES captain, won the toss, chose to bat first, and his batsmen fired, charging to 319/4 from their 50 overs. Kuijers then led the KES bowling attack as they bundled out St Andrew’s in 40 overs for 173.
Saints were on 89/3 in the 24th over of their reply, doing a steady job of rebuilding their innings after losing three early wickets, when Bromley introduced Kuijers into the attack. His first task was to break a budding 36-run fourth-wicket partnership between FG Botha and Schalk van Rensburg.
Kuijers obliged by getting rid of Van Rensburg for 18. He also added the wickets of Harbin Smith and Botha in his first three overs, bringing to an end Botha’s fine 75 off 70 balls.
In his fourth over, KES enjoyed further success, this time from a run out, and Kuijers added two more wickets in the 38th and 40th overs as the St Andrew’s reply hit the skids. After nine overs, Kuijers’ contribution was an outstanding 5/28.
Earlier in the day, Gordon, Bromley, and Abdullah Mohammed struck half-centuries to bat KES into a strong position.
Bromley got KES going with two partnerships worth a combined 135 runs. The opener, who scored 71 runs from 78 balls, shared a 72-run stand with Tiago Dias for the first wicket. He, then, added 52 more with Gordon, the innings’ top scorer.
Gordon’s 95-ball stay resulted in an exceptional 96 runs, and he pushed the game forward with a solid 124-run third-wicket partnership with Mohammed, which lasted until Gordon’s dismissal in the 46th over.
Mohammed, who finished unbeaten on 85 from 75 balls, stitched together a 60-run fourth-wicket partnership with Luke Clark that was broken on the last delivery of the innings.
Summarised Scorecard
KES 319/4 (Troy Gordon 96, Abdullah Mohammed 85*, Matthew Bromley 71; Heindré Serfontein 1/21, Berno Coetzee 1/54). St Andrew’s School 173/10 (FG Botha 75, Dean Katzin 27; Connor Kuijers 5/28, Luke Clark 1/21). KES won by 146 runs.
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