Another win for Benoni Northerns Cricket Club’s (BNCC) Premier League XI on January 27 has kept the team in pole position atop the Eastern Premier League table before the 12-team competition splits between the top half and the bottom half in a fortnight’s time.
The team travelled to Bedfordview Country Club where they met a young Bedfordview outfit.
The hosts won the morning coin toss and elected to bat first, a move which was welcomed by BNCC skipper Kurt Francis due to the threat of rain and his team’s dominance with the ball in recent matches.
Bedfordview stumbled along to a score of 118 all out in 37.5 overs with BNCC spinner Leonard Killian having a field day.
Killian bagged remarkable figures of 5/9 in 5.5 overs as the destroyer-in-chief for the Benonians.
Fellow spinner WP Myburgh and opening medium-pace bowler Stefan Jordaan both bagged a brace of wickets on the day.
In their reply with the willow, the Northerns men chased down the target within 20 overs.
Vaughn Humphrey, the highest run-getter for BNCC this campaign, fell three runs short of a half-century.
Bedfordview, despite taking three BNCC wickets, lost the match by seven wickets.
BNCC will have a bye this weekend before the next stage of the competition commences.
Meanwhile, on January 26, the records keep on tumbling for the unbeaten BNCC Women’s League team.
The women hosted Vosloorus at the Northerns C-Field and ran riot.
Batting first, the BNCC opening batting pair of Sian Dippenaar and Simoné van Dalen were superb.
Van Dalen scored her maiden half-century with 60 runs not out, but the innings belonged to Dippenaar who scored a massive 215 runs not out.
She is now the record holder for the most runs by a player in an innings, surpassing Lila Nell’s record of 168 not out, which was scored in the first half of this season.
Northerns didn’t lose a single wicket, accumulating 302 runs in their 35-over innings.
The team then shared the responsibility in the field with all the bowlers contributing to the wicket tally, but the stand out performance came from Alicia Smith Harding who took four wickets in 2.2 overs for nine runs, including a run-out.
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