Sharks scrape home against fiery Lions and other sporting news

Sharks scrape home against fiery Lions
The Sharks over­came a spir­ited and determ­ined effort from the Lions to secure a semi-final spot in the Premier Division of the 2009 Absa Currie Cup at the Absa Stadium in Durban on Saturday after­noon. Stefan Terblanche’s men were made to fight every inch of the way to secure vic­tory against the Lions who pro­duced a ster­ling defens­ive effort against their more fan­cied rivals.

In the end how­ever, the KwaZulu-Natalians squeaked home 19–17 against the vis­it­ors from Johannesburg, thanks largely to the boot of scrum­half Ruan Pienaar (pic­tured), the dom­in­a­tion of their Springbok laden for­ward pack and a gutsy all round per­form­ance from the 34-year-old Terblanche, who is cur­rently play­ing some of the best rugby of his career.

Despite hav­ing the major­ity of the pos­ses­sion and ter­rit­ory in the open­ing 40 minutes, the Sharks failed to trans­late their huge advant­age into points as they went into the break just 16–11 to the good. The home side made far too many mis­takes close to their opponent’s tryline, which meant they squandered numer­ous scor­ing oppor­tun­it­ies allow­ing the Lions to stay in the match.

In fact, the Lions were the first to score a try cour­tesy of a 14^th minute effort by wing Chris Jonck, who dived over his opponent’s tryline after a well-worked break by Doppies la Grange. Flyhalf Herkie Kruger failed to add the extra points, but his earlier pen­alty gave the Lions an 8–6 advant­age after Pienaar had slot­ted two pen­al­ties of his own in the open­ing minutes.

Sharks No 10 Juan Martin Hernandez put the home side back in front with a well struck drop goal in the 33^rd minute and the Sharks went fur­ther ahead six minutes later when Bismarck du Pleassis crashed over. Pienaar added the extra points to make it 16–8 in favour of the home side, but Kruger replied with another pen­alty seconds before the hooter to close the gap to just five points, set­ting the stage for an inter­est­ing second half.

And inter­est­ing it was as the Lions came out fight­ing with Kruger adding another pen­alty after a couple of minutes to make it 16–14 in favour of the Sharks. This score her­al­ded an intense pas­sage of play, which saw the vis­it­ors secure more pos­ses­sion and ter­rit­ory than they did in the first stanza to give the Sharks a run for their money. However, des­pite some intense attacks from both teams, neither side man­aged to score any tries as their fin­ish­ing let them down at cru­cial moments.

Bother defences were giv­ing it a hun­dred per­cent, with Kruger’s efforts in par­tic­u­lar stand­ing out. The Lions No 10 sus­tained a nasty bruised eye in the 47^th minute after a clash of heads with Sharks centre Andries Strauss, but was unwill­ing to leave the pitch des­pite the eye clos­ing com­pletely. However, with Kruger’s facial fea­tures resem­bling some­thing akin to a one eyed mon­ster, san­ity pre­vailed and the Lions stal­wart left the field sev­eral minutes later. But if the Sharks thought that their oppon­ents would fold at the demise of their trusty goal kicker they were sadly mis­taken as Jonck put the vis­it­ors in front again with a 64^th minute penalty.

The Sharks turned up the heat in response but were unable to cross their opponent’s tryline, fall­ing foul of some excel­lent defence. However, Pienaar slot­ted a 72^nd pen­alty to restore his side’s fra­gile two point lead, which proved just enough to sneak the win. Despite the loss, which denied them a semi-final berth, the Lions can be proud of their achieve­ments as they ran the Sharks close, deny­ing them a bonus point and leav­ing them second on the log behind Western Province, cour­tesy of an inferior points difference.

Sharks cap­tain Terblanche gave an intel­li­gent sum­mary of the evening’s pro­ceed­ings.  “We have to give credit to the Lions, they played for their lives and we have a lot to do in pre­par­a­tion for the semi-finals,” he remarked. Indeed, the Lions played with remark­able spirit and will go into their final league fix­ture against Province in Johannesburg this Saturday con­fid­ent of pulling off an upset. The Sharks’ last out­ing ahead of next Saturday’s semi-finals is a tricky encounter against the always dan­ger­ous Griquas in Kimberley. The dia­mond miners have had a sur­pris­ingly good sea­son and are lying fourth on the log, and a win against the Sharks would secure them a semi-final spot.

Bulls out­class Griquas, while Cheetahs, WP win eas­ily
The Blue Bulls romped to a con­vin­cing 61–27 win over Griquas in their Absa Premier Division Currie Cup clash at Loftus Versfeld in Pretoria on Saturday after­noon. The men from Pretoria outscored the dia­mond miners by eight tries to four, thereby secur­ing them­selves a semi-final berth in this year’s competition.

Griquas could well lose their berth to the Cheetahs, who trounced the Leopards 60–17 in Bloemfontein on Friday, if they don’t beat the Sharks at home this Saturday. However, it was not all doom and gloom for Griquas as they did man­age to secure a bonus point by scor­ing four tries against their illus­tri­ous rivals – an achieve­ment not to be sniffed at.

In fact, Griquas made a game of it in the open­ing stages, going 10–7 up after 12 minutes, but when cap­tain Jonathan Mokuena was sin binned in the 22^nd minute for foul play, they seemed to lose heart as the Bulls began to stamp their author­ity on the game. A half­time lead of 27–13 was increased to 42–20 after 57 minutes and from then on the Bulls piled on points to run away with proceedings.

However, a try by fly­half Naas Olivier in the dying seconds gave Griquas their fourth try and that all import­ant bonus point, which could mean the dif­fer­ence between qual­i­fy­ing and not qual­i­fy­ing for the semi-finals. The Bulls’ last fix­ture before the semi-finals is against the Leopards at the Royal Bafokeng Sports Palace in Phokeng on Saturday. In another game played on Saturday, Western Province crushed the Boland Cavaliers 50–7. The Bolanders’ last out­ing of the sea­son will be against the Cheetahs in Bloemfontein on Saturday.

Scorers
Bulls versus Griquas
Bulls 61: Tries: Zane Kirchner, Danie Rossouw, Morne Steyn (2), Pierre Spies (pic­tured left), Bryan Habana (2), Bandisa Maku. Conversions: Steyn (5), Francois Brummer. Penalties: Steyn (3).
Griquas 27: Tries: Sarel Pretorius, Davon Raubenheimer, Barry Geel, Naas Olivier. Conversions: Naas Olivier (2). Penalties: Olivier.

Boland versus Western Province
WP 50: Tries: Luke Watson (3), Tiaan Liebenberg, Andries Bekker, Ricky Januarie, Tonderai Chavhanga; Conversions: Joe Pietersen (6); Penalty: Joe Pietersen.
Boland 7: Try: Deon Scholtz. Conversion: Mark Harris.

Cheetahs versus Leopards
Cheetahs 60: Tries: Jacques-Louis Potgieter, Ashley Johnson, Hendro Scholtz, Frans Viljoen, WP Nel, Meyer Bosman, Jongi Nokwe, Nico Breedt. Conversions: Tewis de Bruyn (5), Louis Strydom (2). Penalties: Potgieter (2).
Leopards 17: Tries: Deon van Rensburg, Danie Dames. Conversions: Jean Tiedt, Niell Jacobs. Penalty: Tiedt.

Steven’s tumble bad news for Bafana
News from the troubled Bafana Bafana camp is that mid­fielder Steven Pienaar (pic­tured) has with­drawn from the squad to face Norway and Iceland within the next few days. Pienaar suffered a knee injury while play­ing for Everton against Portsmouth in a recent English Premier League clash. Ironically, the per­son respons­ible for the injury was none other than Bafana cap­tain Aaron Moekoena, whose heavy tackle flattened the dimin­ut­ive mid­fielder. The injury to Pienaar could not have come at a worse time for Bafana whose pre­par­a­tion for next year’s all-important World Cup are not going accord­ing to plan.

With six defeats in their last seven out­ings, the South Africans, and their coach Joel Santana in par­tic­u­lar, have come in for heaps of cri­ti­cism. The injury to a key player like Pienaar, one of the form play­ers in the squad, is a major blow to their chances against their Scandinavian oppon­ents, who always provide a tough out­ing for any inter­na­tional team at home.

Granted, Pienaar’s replace­ment, Franklin Cale, has been in excel­lent form in the PSL of late, but he simply does not have Pienaar’s con­sid­er­able inter­na­tional exper­i­ence and it will prob­ably be ask­ing too much from him to spur Bafana into action against the Scandinavians. Bafana square off against Norway in Oslo on Saturday before trav­el­ling to Reykjavik to face Iceland on Tuesday.

Meanwhile, Amajita, the national Under-20 team, failed to make the quarter-finals of the Under-20 World Cup when they were beaten 2–1 by Ghana in Ismaillia, Egypt yes­ter­day. Kermit Erasmus put the South Africans 1–0 up in the 58^th minute after beat­ing Ghana’s defence and round­ing goal­keeper Daniel Agyei, but Andre Ayew equal­ised with a power­ful header eight minutes later to leave the match nicely poised with 24 minutes left. However, both teams failed to break the dead­lock, for­cing the match into extra time where Dominic Adiyiah sealed the win for the Ghanians with a well-struck shot from 25 metres out.

Amajita def­in­itely had their chances to win the game but failed to take them and tired vis­ibly towards the end of the second half, and were almost out on their feet at the end of the game. Ghana will face South Korea in the quarter-finals while the South Africans, des­pite fail­ing to pro­gress to the last eight, can return home with dig­nity after record­ing some decent wins in the tournament

Pirates stay on top
Orlando Pirates remained at the top of the Absa Premier Soccer League after play­ing to a goal­less draw with 11^th placed Free State Stars at the Charles Mopeli Stadium on Saturday after­noon. The Buccaneers are now two points clear of second placed Bidvest Wits who defeated bot­tom of the log Jomo Cosmos 3–1 at home on Sunday. The pick of the games though was the clash between fourth placed SuperSport United and eigth placed Golden Arrows who fought to a one all draw at the Super Stadium on Saturday.

SuperSport had high hopes of catch­ing log lead­ers Pirates going into this match but their hopes were dealt a blow when they failed to get the win against a res­ol­ute Arrows out­fit. Instead they had to settle for a draw – a res­ult that sees them in fourth pos­i­tion on the log with 16 points, one point adrift of third and second placed Bloem Celtic and Bidvest Wits respect­ively, and two behind Pirates.

SuperSport had to come from a goal down to secure a share of the spoils against Arrows, who went a goal up after 55 minutes cour­tesy of mid­fielder Ntlantla Zothwane’s low shot from 10 metres out. Defender Bongani Khumalo (pic­tured) was the saviour for Matsatsantsa when his 60^th minute header found the back of the net after Jabu Maluleke had fired in a free kick.

The home side applied the pres­sure in the clos­ing stages of the match in the hope of secur­ing a win­ner, but just could not find a way past Arrows goal­keeper Thulasizwe Khuzwayo, who thwarted efforts from both Maluleke and sub­sti­tute Tebogo Langerman in the last 10 minutes. The res­ult leaves Arrows eighth on the log, just behind Kaizer Chiefs who had an excel­lent 3–0 win over sixth placed Ajax Cape Town at Newlands on Sunday. All the PSL teams will have some­thing of a breather for a couple of days with the next round of fix­tures only sched­uled for Saturday, October 17.

Results (left to right)
Last Wednesday
Ajax Cape Town 1        Platinum Stars 0
AmaZulu 0                Golden Arrows 1
Friday
Maritzburg Utd 1            Mamelodi Sundowns 5
Santos 1                Black Aces    0
Saturday
AmaZulu 2                Moroka Swallows    1
Free State Stars 0        Orlando Pirates 0
Platinum Stars 1            Bloem Celtic 2
SuperSport Utd 1            Golden Arrows 1
Sunday
Bidvest Wits 3            Jomo Cosmos 1
Ajax Cape Town 0        Kaizer Chiefs 3

Floods delay big fight
The World Boxing Council (WBC) interim super fly­weight title fight between South African Evans Mbamba (pic­tured second from left) and Mexican Tomas Rojas, has been delayed as a res­ult of floods that left thou­sands of people home­less in the Mexican state of Vera Cruz. The con­test was sup­posed to have taken place on October 3, but has been post­poned until Saturday, October 24. The 28-year-old Mbamba boasts an impress­ive record of 16–0 (8 KO’s) while the 29-year-old Rojas has a log of 31–11-1 (22 KO’s).

Mbamba is an accom­plished boxer who has beaten local oppos­i­tion of the cal­ibre of Unathi Gqoma (W12), Zolile Mbityi (W12) and Tendani Munyai  (KO 2). He has also beaten inter­na­tional oppon­ents such as Devid Lookmahanak (KO 7) and Pedro Cardenas (TKO 11) to estab­lish him­self as not only one of the best junior ban­tam­weights in the coun­try, but also as an emer­ging force on the inter­na­tional fight scene.

However, Mbamba faces a stern test in the form of the dur­able and exper­i­enced Rojas, who has been in with top fight­ers such as the fierce-some Jorge Arce (L TKO 6), Anselmo Moreno (L10), and Gerry Penalosa (L10) not to men­tion many others.

Meanwhile, it has been announced that former International Boxing Organisation (IBO) junior light­weight cham­pion Zolani Marali (20–3, 13 KO’s), will move up a divi­sion to battle World Boxing Foundation (WBF) light­weight cham­pion Mlungisi Dlamini (20–0-1, 12 KO’s) for the IBO light­weight belt. Marali and Dlamini will clash for the vacant title at Emperors Palace, Kempton Park, on October 31 in a tour­na­ment pro­moted by Golden Gloves.

The 32-year-old Marali was stopped by South Korean Ji-Hoon Kim in his most recent fight, but blamed the defeat on bat­tling to make the junior light­weight limit. Marali was out­box­ing Kim until he star­ted to fade badly after the sev­enth round, allow­ing the rugged Korean back into the fight on his way to record­ing a stun­ning upset. The 27-year-old Dlamini, a nat­ural light­weight who has made four defences of his WBF title, must be favoured to beat the older Marali who is unlikely to cope with the KwaZulu-Natalian’s fear­some com­bin­a­tion punching.

On the same bill, Tommy ‘Tommy Gun’ Oosthuizen  (8–0, 6 KO’s) squares off against Tshepang Mohale (7–2, 6 KO’s) in a super mid­dle­weight bout, while tal­en­ted Malawian fighter Isaac Chilembe (13–1, 8 KO’s) will chal­lenge Doudou Ngumbu of France (20–0, 9 KO’s) for the WBC International light-heavyweight title. It should be an enter­tain­ing night’s action for the vocal Emperor’s Palace crowd, who really enjoy their boxing.

The International Boxing Federation (IBF) youth wel­ter­weight title will be up for grabs at the Sport Hall Banjica in Belgrade, Serbia on Saturday night when unbeaten war­ri­ors Mthobisi Buthelezi (10–0, 6 KO’s) and Stefan Stevanovic
(8–0, 2 KO’s) do battle in a sched­uled 10 rounder.

Stevanovic, from Serbia, cap­tured the title in October last year by out-pointing Russian Michael Schubov over 10 rounds in Belgrade, and then defen­ded it with a split decision vic­tory over another Russian, Alexey Evchemko, in March. The Serbian is a cap­able boxer and has fought the bet­ter qual­ity oppos­i­tion, but the South African is by far the harder hit­ter of the two and his points vic­tory over the more exper­i­enced Sello Letsoalo in July, would have given him lots of con­fid­ence ahead of the biggest fight of his young life.

Nevertheless, Stevanovic must start as the slight favour­ite in this fight given his greater exper­i­ence as a pro­fes­sional (he fought 86 fight vet­eran Anton Glofak in only his fifth pro­fes­sional bout) not to men­tion hav­ing the advant­age of fight­ing on his home turf. Both fight­ers are just 21, and a loss at this early stage of their careers will not be det­ri­mental, but both young­sters will be hop­ing that a win will set the stage for big­ger and bet­ter things.

Rain spoils Dolphins’ party
The Nashua Dolphins were in a strong pos­i­tion against the Nashua Titans at Kingsmead in Durban before bad light put an early end to pro­ceed­ings to deny the home team a pos­sible vic­tory in their SuperSport Series match.

Ahmed Amla (53), brother of Proteas player Hashim, and Jon Kent (10) were at the crease when the umpires decided to call it quits under gloomy skies with the Dolphins on 128/3 in their second innings. This meant that the home side had amassed an over­all lead of 197 runs after scor­ing 233 in their first innings, fol­low­ing which the Titans replied with 164.

However, in the end, the weather spoilt what could have been a fant­astic game with over 190 overs being lost on the first two and a half days due to bad light and rain. The Titans resumed on 100/2 on Sunday and looked set to sur­pass the Dolphins’ first innings score, but seamer Yusuf Abdulla (pic­tured) was the archi­tect of a dra­matic Titans col­lapse which saw the Pretoria vis­it­ors lose eight wick­ets for 64 runs.

Abdulla tore through the Titans’ middle and lower order to cap­ture 5/62 in just 15.4 overs in a dev­ast­at­ing spell of swing bowl­ing. The 25-year-old was well sup­por­ted by Johann Louw who claimed 2/37 in 14 overs and former Protea Andrew Hall, who cap­tured 1/21 from 12 overs. The Titans’ next out­ing is against the Chevrolet Warriors at Willowmore Park tomor­row, while the Dolphins take on the same oppon­ents the fol­low­ing Thursday.

Soggy field puts paid to Warriors’ efforts
The Chevrolet Warriors superb all round efforts came to nought against the bizhub Highveld Lions over the week­end when wet run-ups forced the umpires to call a halt to pro­ceed­ings with the Warriors’ second innings score on 102/2 –an over­all lead of 181 runs.

Colin Ingram and Arno Jacobs resumed on 60/2 on Sunday for the Warriors and reached their 50-run part­ner­ship for the third wicket in 69 minutes off 99 balls with eight fours. The duo was still at the crease when the umpires made their decision to pull the plug with Ingram on 29 and Jacobs on 21.

The Lions had earlier replied to the Warriors’ mam­moth first innings score of 474 with 395/7. Their innings was built on the efforts of Jonathan Vandiar (pic­tured) who scored 128 off 172 balls. The young Vandiar was well sup­por­ted by vet­eran Neil McKenzie (54), Alviro Pterson (51) and Stephen Cook (66). The Warriors first innings was built on the found­a­tion laid by centurion’s Jacobs (119) and Justin Kreusch (130), but in the end their superb efforts with sty­mied by per­sist­ent overnight rain, which cre­ated unsafe con­di­tions for the bowl­ers dur­ing their run-ups.
However, the Warriors man­aged to edge the Lions in the bonus points depart­ment, col­lect­ing 7.5 points for the match as opposed to the Lions’ 6.7. The two teams meet again on October 22 and will be hop­ing that the weather plays along this time out.

At this early stage of the com­pet­i­tion, with most teams hav­ing played only two matches, the Gesterner Diamond Eagles find them­selves at the top of the stand­ings with 22.48 points closely fol­lowed by the Nashua Titans on 21.72. The Lions are in third pos­i­tion on 16.10 points with the Nashua Cape Cobras fourth on 11.14 while the Warriors (7.50) and Dolphins (6.66) are in fifth and sixth pos­i­tions respect­ively, although both teams have played just one game.

No stop­ping Nelson in Paarl
Twenty-two-year-old Scottburgh res­id­ent Prinavin Nelson three-putted the final hole, but it was enough to achieve his maiden Sunshine Tour win on Saturday in the 54-hole SAA Pro-Am Invitational at the 6 289m par-72 Paarl Golf Club. Nelson fin­ished with a final round of four-under 68 for a total of 11-under 205 to edge Desvonde Botes into second place.

The man­ner in which Nelson began the final round gave no indic­a­tion that he was feel­ing any pres­sure as he reeled off five bird­ies in the first six holes to open up a nice gap between him­self and play­ing part­ner Trevor Fisher. Nelson bogeyed the eighth after get­ting him­self in trouble to the left off the tee, but struck back imme­di­ately on the ninth with his sixth birdie to record a five-under 31.

Managing to keep his nerves in check, Nelson pro­duced a series of pars, even though he wasn’t put­ting as well as he usu­ally does. This seemed to release the pres­sure on the young KwaZulu-Natalian some­what as Fisher’s chal­lenge faded, and there was the know­ledge that only Botes could place any pres­sure on him. Nelson didn’t dis­ap­point by lying up short of the green on the 18^th and play­ing his chip to about 15 feet, leav­ing him three putts to get home, which he duly achieved.

A gradu­ate of the Ernie Els Foundation, Nelson fin­ished 71^st on the Order of Merit in his debut sea­son on the Sunshine Tour last year, but it had been a quiet year until now for the young­ster, with only one top 20 fin­ish – 18^th in last month’s Vodacom Business Origins of Golf at Selborne Estate.

Nelson’s vic­tory in Paarl has cata­pul­ted him to 57^th in the 2009 Order of Merit, and boos­ted his con­fid­ence: “The first win feels really great, and I hope that everything feels a lot easier from the next tour­na­ment onwards,” he said. With any luck, KwaZulu-Natal and South Africa may have a future star in the making.

Top eight scores (South African unless spe­cified)
205 — Prinavin Nelson 68 69 68
206 — Desvonde Botes 71 68 67
207 — Chris Swanepoel 73 66 68, Jacques Blaauw 75 64 68, Trevor Fisher Jnr 68 69 70
208 — Clinton Whitelaw 80 62 66
209 — Jaco Van Zyl 74 68 67, Divan van den Heever 72 67 70

Vos and Pitchford do it again
There just seems to be no stop­ping the SP Donaldson Nissan Navara duo of Duncan Vos and Ralph Pitchford (pic­tured). The pair, who have already been crowned 2009 South African National Off-Road Racing Champions, recor­ded their fifth win in seven races this sea­son by tri­umph­ing in the Toyota Dealer 400 in Lydenburg on Saturday.

Vos and Pitchford’s time of 7 hrs, 52 min and 29 sec was 24 seconds bet­ter than the efforts of Hein Lategan and Chris Birkin in their Toyota Hilux. Ivar Tollefsen and Quin Evans were third in another Nissan Navara, 2 min, 32 sec fur­ther back and 22 seconds ahead of Anthony Taylor and Robin Houghton in another Toyota Hilux.

Veteran Hannes Grobler and Juan Mohr were fifth, 27 seconds behind Taylor and Houghton. The exper­i­enced duo led the race in the early going from Nissan team-mates Vos and Pitchford and Tollefsen and Evans, but dropped back to 11^th after pick­ing up a puncture.

It was a very suc­cess­ful event for Nissan who also tri­umphed in class A (Vos and Pitchford) and class E, with former cir­cuit racing cham­pion Leeroy Poulter and Rob Howie steer­ing their Ferodo Nissan Hardbody to 16^th over­all and 1.01 sec ahead of the Toyota Hilux of Jannie Visser and Joks le Roux. Vos and Pitchford, Tollefsen and Evans and Grobler and Mohr com­bined to give Nissan the man­u­fac­tur­ers’ chal­lenge award for the event.

Vos and Pitchford lead the cham­pi­on­ship with 148 points, while Tollefsen and Evans are second on 82 and Gary Bertholdt and Andre Vermeulen third on 74. The final round of the cham­pi­on­ship is the RFS Magalies 400, which takes place from November 6–7.

Jenkins takes Fish River hon­ours
Len Jenkins (pic­tured) won the 2009 Hansa Powerade Fish River Canoe Marathon in a record time of 4 hours, 51 min and 16 sec in Cradock on Saturday, shat­ter­ing his old mark by more than six minutes. Jenkins was up against some stiff com­pet­i­tion in the form of German sprint world cham­pion Max Hoff and the ever-consistent Hank McGregor. Hoff powered his way past McGregor to take second place, beat­ing the stage record on the second and final day. Under-23 world mara­thon cham­pion Grant van der Walt fin­ished fourth while Czech wild water ace Robert Knebel was fifth.

Robyn Kime won the women’s race in 5:38:22 with another Czech, Katerina Vacikova, second in 5:39:48 and Michéle Steyn third in 5:42:36. Abie Adie (5:47:01) and Jen Hodson (5:58:22) were fourth and fifth respect­ively. World junior mara­thon cham­pion Brandon van der Walt won the junior race in 5:12:07 while Cradock local Hanré Maree clinched vic­tory in the women’s junior event in a record-breaking 6:01:44.

Photo Credits:
Sharks scrape home against fiery Lions — Photo – Ruan Pienaar: Source – www.zimbio.com
Bulls out­class Griquas, while Cheetahs, WP win eas­ily — Photo – Pierre Spies: Source – www.zimbio.com
Steven’s tumble bad news for Bafana — Photo – Steven Pienaar: Source – www.dailymail.co.uk
Pirates stay on top — Photo – Bongani Khumalo: Source – www.baobongda.com.vn
Floods delay big fight — Photo – Evans Mbamba: Source – www.fightnews.com
Rain spoils Dolphins’ party — Photo – Yusuf Abdulla: Source – www.cricinfo.com
Soggy field puts paid to Warriors’ efforts — Photo – Jonathan Vandiar: Source – www.pictopia.com
No stop­ping Nelson in Paarl — Photo – Prinavin Nelson: Source – www.sunshinetour.com
Vos and Pitchford do it again — Photo – Duncan Vos and Ralph Pitchford: Source – www.quickpic.co.za
Jenkins takes Fish River hon­ours — Photo – Len Jenkins: Source – www.dusi.co.za

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