Schools Cricket – Kearsney College

Schools Cricket. Kearsney College took a young side to a sweltering Maritzburg College for schools cricket on a day when the toss was to be crucial in terms of the heat factor. Kearsney lost the toss and bowled first in the steamy conditions.

Chad Mason took full advantage of the faltering Kearsney attack which was to concede 38 extras as the innings wore on and contributed with a well-played 75. Litha Gonya was the pick of Kearsney’s bowlers with 3/23. College posted a respectable 213 in 49.1 overs.

It was always going to be difficult chase with the young and inexperienced batsmen up against battle-hardened College matrics in the Goldstone cauldron; but they stuck to the task manfully.

Excellent leg spinner Chad Mason (3/38) and a few disastrous runouts compounded matters and Kearsney was bowled out for 181. Only Ross Coetzee (38), Aaron Blackburn (32) and Cole Young (29) offered any real resistance. College predictably won by 32 runs.

It was a classic College/Kearsney clash, no holds barred and played with passion and pride throughout.

A highlight of the day for Kearsney was that captain Ross Coetzee broke the school record for the most runs scored in a calendar year.  Until last year, the record had stood since 1965, before being broken by Hayden Bishop, who made 1 428 runs. Ross Coetzee broke that record on Saturday, scoring his 1 433rd run. He still has one game remaining this season.

Results:

• Maritzburg College 1^st X1: 213 (Mason 75; Gonya 3/23)
• Kearsney 1^st X1: 181 (Coetzee 38, Blackburn 32; Mason 3/38)
• Kearsney lost by 32 runs 

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