http://www.senore.com/Cricket/South-Africa-c757 Domestic: Border v Western
Province – 1st Day’s Summary
Western Province 186 v Border 116 - Border trail by 70 runs with 2 wickets remaining in the 1st innings
Western Province (WP) are in a strong position on day one in the ongoing CSA Provincial Three-Day Challenge at Buffalo Park, East London after posting 186 runs on Thursday, October 20, 2011.
After winning the toss, Border chose to field first to restrict the opposition on a meagre tally.
They made early inroads in the seventh over by grabbing the wicket of Western Province opener http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Matthew-Caleb-Kleinveldt-c75120 who departed after playing a knock of 14 runs off 29 deliveries. At the time of his departure, WP had managed to post 27 runs on the board.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mujahid-Behardien-c77900 then crafted a handy innings of 27 runs to take the tally to 54 runs before Walters was given leg-before wicket on 32 runs off the bowling of right-arm pacer Ayabulela Gqamane in the 16th
over.
In the 18th over Behardien was trapped right in front of stumps by Darryl Lewis Brown, which resulted in his demise after playing a short innings of seven runs off 24 deliveries.
With three wickets down for 55 runs, WP needed their batsmen to bat long enough to post a respectable total on the board.
It were the efforts from the middle-order batsmen that prevented the side from suffering a complete meltdown as http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ryan-Clement-Cavanagh-Canning-c87289 clobbered commendable knocks for their team.
In the end, Western Province ended their innings by posting 186 runs on the board.
Coming out to bat, Border had a disastrous start to their innings as they lost their first wicket on the second delivery of the second over when opener http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Shaun-de-Kock-c89836 was adjudged leg-before wicket on a delivery by Brandon Viret after scoring just four runs
off six deliveries.
At this time, the side had managed to post five runs on the board.
On the penultimate delivery of the 12th over Border suffered the loss of their second wicket on 28 runs when http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Vuyisa-Makhaphela-c95597 had his timber disturbed by Weshaam Keraan.
Later, with 50 runs on the board the team had lost four wickets. Things were certainly not looking bright for the side batting second and there was a growing need for the remaining batsmen to take some responsibility.
30-year-old http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Jai-Prakash-Yadav-c65330 Bothma
in the 25th over.
At stumps, Border had posted 116 runs with http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Yanda-Pangabantu-c98206 on eight runs.
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