Schools SA20 Profile – Nuhaa Benjamin – Victoria Cricket Club
Nuhaa Bejamin is following in the footsteps of some top players who have turned out for the Victoria Cricket Club and she’s aiming to win national acclaim for the team at the Schools SA20 National Finals in Pretoria.
The girls’ competition starts on Thursday.
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Benjamin, who opens the batting for the Cape Town side, has made significant waves in their campaign.
In the semi-final and the final against HTS Drostdy, she top-scored to lead her side to the title of regional champions.
She came close to a half-century in both matches, scoring 42 off 35 balls in the semi-finals before bettering that score that same afternoon with a classy 47, the highest individual score of the final.
Benjamin also showed her class during the first phase of the Schools SA20, twice exceeding 50, including against the strong bowling lineup of Reddam House Constantia. In that match, she smashed eight fours in a contribution of 58 runs from only 52 deliveries.
“Her ability to rotate the strike, and then, to capitalise on the bad ball makes her extremely dangerous and effective for us at the top of the order,” Myles Williamson, Benjamin’s coach at Victoria Cricket Club, said.
Apart from her batting prowess, she’s also a handy right-arm medium-pace bowler. Her ability to contain run-scoring through the middle part of a T20 match makes her extremely effective. It also allows Victoria’s other bowlers more freedom to hunt for wickets, which has proved to be a winning recipe in the past.
Benjamin is highly motivated to make her mark at the national final in Pretoria and to help her team become the inaugural winner of the Schools SA20 title. It will be a tough challenge, but there can be only one inaugural winner, and that’s history that Benjamin is keen to help her team make.
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