GARDEN ROUTE | KAROO SPORT NEWS -The two-day fixture between the Six Gun Grill Garden Route Badgers Academy and Western Province played in Cape Town last week ended in a draw.
The Garden Route Badgers, who batted first, declared their first innings as 404/8 (82 overs).
Travis Ackermann excelled with an innings of 160, while Hayden Sweet posted 74. Western Province was dismissed at the end of the second day for 295.
Western Province (130/5 – 18/5 overs) won the Twenty20 match by five wickets with seven balls to spare.
For the Badgers, Johan Smal (50*) impressed with an unbeaten half-century.
The summarised score cards are:
Two-Day match
- GARDEN ROUTE BADGERS ACADEMY 404/8 (82 overs) Travis Ackerman 160, Hayden Sweet 74, Mark Adrianatos 38, Odin le Roux 31, Thurstin Murphy 31*, Tyrese Karelse 25, Anoxolo Khitshini 24, A Draai 2/55, J Berends 2/10)
- WP ACADEMY 295 all out (A Bayamy 61, B Johnson 58, J Berends 54, Anoxolo Khitshini 4/26, Ayabonga Ngondo 3/112)
- Match drawn.
Twenty/20 match
- GARDEN ROUTE BADGERS ACADEMY 28/6 (20 overs) (Johan Smal 50*, Hayden Sweet 28*, Tyrese Karelse 25, B Aarons 2/43)
- WP ACADEMY 130/5 (18.5 overs) (J James 43, M De Villiers 36, R Senekal 29*, Anoxolo Khitshini 2/29)
- WP Academy won by 5 wickets.
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