da premier bet： By the end of the first day of their last Super Eight match, WesternProvince had confirmed their home final next week by grabbing four battingpoints, having gone into the encounter 18 clear of second-placed Border
da betobet： Grant Shimmin – MWP15-Mar-2001By the end of the first day of their last Super Eight match, WesternProvince had confirmed their home final next week by grabbing four battingpoints, having gone into the encounter 18 clear of second-placed Border.They totalled 316 for nine at Supersport Park, with the Northerns reply,scheduled for five overs, lasting just ten runless balls before the umpiresdecided the light was too bad to continue.It hadn’t looked like being so comfortable for Province early in the day,after the visitors had decided to take first strike, with the first threewickets falling for just 19. Left-armer Greg Smith grabbed his 200th firstclass wicket in his last match before heading off for Clive Rice’sNottinghamshire, when he had namesake Graeme caught behind by wicket-keeperKruger van Wyk, the first of five catches for the highly-rated gloveman.Rudi Bryson got Andrew Puttick and HD Ackerman via the same route.Then Lloyd Ferreira (62) and Ashwell Prince (79) combined to take Provincewell into the afternoon session for no further loss in a stand of 136 forthe fourth wicket.The pendulum had swung back to Province, but the dismissal of Ferreira,bowled by David Townsend, sent it swinging back towards the home side. Forthe addition of just one more run, Prince and Renier Munnik (0) were sentback and suddenly Province were 156 for six.That was the cue for Neil Johnson and Thami Tsolekile to get together,however, and the former Zimbabwean Test star and a man expected to play forSouth Africa before his career runs its course added 117, before Tsolekilewent for an adventurous 49.Johnson saw Province past 300 before Bryson bowled him for 84, off just 130balls, with Roger Telemachus (4) the last man to fall before Ackerman’sdeclaration.
