Important match for Zimbabwe Provinces, this one - they’re currently top of Pool B (although they’ve played one more match than most sides in the group), and Griqualand West are their nearest challengers. If they’re to have any hope of reaching the SAA Provincial Challenge final, then they must win this match.
Provices won the toss and elected to field, and captain Blessing Mawhire and Ed Rainsford were soon in the wickets, removing the Griqua openers to leave them in trouble on 3/46. From there, though, Petrus Koortzen and Wendell Bossenger dug in to put on 148 for the 4th wicket, giving particular problems to Graeme Cremer. But it was Cremer who eventually made the breakthrough, removing Koortzen, and from there regular wickets - and an impressive spell by Trevor Garwe (4/49) - saw Griqualand bowled out for 293, a disappointment for them when a score of 400+ looked possible at one point.
Provinces’ reply got off to a poor start, with Terrence Duffin’s run of poor form continuing (out for just 9) and Tino Mawoyo also failing to fire. After 25 overs play, Provinces closed the day on 72/3, giving the batsmen at the crease (Friday Kasteni and Regis Chakabva) a job to do in the morning, and the game fairly evenly-balanced.
Griqualand West 293 (Bossenger 88, Garwe 4/49), Zimbabwe Provinces 72/3 (Kasteni 24*, Pietersen 2/9)
Scorecard for the day is below the cut.
Griqualand West 1st innings
AK Kruger c Duffin b Mahwire 25
M Akoojee c Rainsford b Mahwire 8
AP McLaren c Mahwire b Rainsford 7
PJ Koortzen c Mawoyo b Cremer 78
W Bossenger c Chakabva b Mahwire 88
RR Hendricks lbw b Garwe 47
C Pietersen c Duffin b Garwe 24
RA Adams b Garwe 0
APT Mabuya c Chakabva b Garwe 4
R Pietersen lbw b Cremer 0
DD Carolus not out 0
Extras (lb 6, w 1, nb 5) 12
Total (all out; 79.2 overs; 266 mins) 293
Fall of wickets: 1-31 (Akoojee, 12.4 ov), 2-46 (McLaren, 15.4 ov),
3-46 (Kruger, 16.4 ov), 4-194 (Koortzen, 52.2 ov),
5-242 (Bossenger, 65.2 ov), 6-281 (Hendricks, 71.5 ov),
7-283 (Adams, 73.3 ov), 8-290 (C Pietersen, 75.6 ov),
9-292 (R Pietersen, 78.1 ov), 10-293 (Mabuya, 79.2 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ
EC Rainsford 9 1 33 1 3.66
TN Garwe 16.2 3 49 4 3.00 (1w)
NB Mahwire 14 3 61 3 4.35 (1nb)
AM Manyumwa 11 3 37 0 3.36
AG Cremer 27 3 94 2 3.48 (4nb)
F Kasteni 2 0 13 0 6.50
Zimbabwe Provinces 1st innings
TMK Mawoyo c Bossenger b C Pietersen 7
T Duffin c Koortzen b C Pietersen 9
B Mujuru c McLaren b Mabuya 14
F Kasteni not out 24
RW Chakabva not out 8
Extras (lb 5, w 1, nb 4) 10
Total (3 wickets; 25 overs) 72
To bat: SK Nyamuzinga, AG Cremer, AM Manyumwa, NB Mahwire,
TN Garwe, EC Rainsford
Fall of wickets: 1-14 (Duffin, 4.4 ov), 2-25 (Mawoyo, 10.2 ov),
3-59 (Mujuru, 20.3 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ
C Pietersen 7 4 9 2 1.28 (1nb)
DD Carolus 4 0 11 0 2.75 (1nb)
AK Kruger 7 1 20 0 2.85 (1nb, 1w)
RA Adams 2 0 10 0 5.00 (1nb)
APT Mabuya 4 0 12 1 3.00
PJ Koortzen 1 0 5 0 5.00
looks like rainsford is becoming a real strike bowler look at mpofu he operates around 125 ks rainfords can push it up too around 135 ks and hes got that lethal yorker which the current team in pakistan lack bring in rainsford he has to be back.
another on is ryan ervine i have heard a lot of him he should get some games in the provincial challange he looks awsome.