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October 2, 2011
Ryan McLaren put in a solid overall performance, the Knights beat the Titans by six wickets at Centurion. The win puts the Knights on top of the log after the first round.
The Titans were out for a quick start on the first morning, with Jacques Rudolph 80 off 81 balls to ensure scored over 100 runs in the first session. While Rudolph was in the lead at one end, Johann van der Wath and McLaren were piercing through the other. The couple had five wickets between them before lunch and van der Wath continued to charge after the Titans bowling on 227th
Fourteen wickets fell on a fairly placid pitch at SuperSport Park with Kid Machaut Lange and CJ de Villiers, reduced to 43 for the Knights 4th Ryan Bailey recovery designed with a patient 86 and formed two key partnerships, a stand of the fifth counter 60 with Morne van Wyk and an effort to stop the sixth of 65 tracks with McLaren. Bailey has spent half past four Knights of safety management, but it was nearly six-hour relay to McLaren at the crease, who helped build a lead.
Titans bowlers were all economical, but difficult to penetrate and legspinner Shaun von Berg 3 for 100 was their best performance. McLaren managed the cock, and his last wicket of Quinton Friend with 50 was the key advantage of the Knights. They were thrown out of 400, a lead of 173
McLaren struck the first blow in response Titan, remove Tumelo Bodibe to 12, the Titans still 136 runs behind. Rudolph continued to focus its demand for a national site with a fluid 54 and was attended by Henry Davids 95th provocation The Titans suffered a collapse in the middle and lower and have lost their last seven wickets for 79 Tuns. Dean Elgar was the man likely a danger with his left arm is around four scalps for the 25th
The Knights had a modest target of 98 runs to chase to win and we were a little bit. Lange continues with an impressive performance in year 20 started three windows on the night of the third to force the match into a fourth day. The Knights returned to polish 25 runs on the fourth morning and managed to score before the weather intervened.
At the Wanderers, has made Lions opener Stephen Cook and Alviro Petersen A cautious start against the Dolphins on top of a green, managing only 56 runs in the first session, with Cook leaving December 1st stretched out 73 balls. Imran Tahir was caught short leg with his second delivery. Petersen has made an important statement on its ability to continue a test opener, and reached 156 on the first day. His sleeves began with a few streaky boundaries, but in a smooth elegant knock.
There have been some significant contributions from the rest of the batting line and former Lions Frylinck versatile Robbie played with a combination of discipline and pace to take 6-52. Even if their last five wickets fell 57 runs, the sleeves of the Lions in the sum of the first 359 was a competitive market.
If Petersen was powerful sleeves, Hashim Amla was heavenly, as he hit with the usual serene calm to score his third double hundred. The beauty of his sleeves that he was offered the chance of not working Lions players. He hit the ball gently, showing how sublime start to the season. Vaughn van Jaasrveld, another dolphin who played against his former team, Amla and ran well over a century.
The Lions do not have the firepower, with the exception of a spell the end of Craig Alexander on the third day, where he managed to extract recovered with an old ball. Two 48s Pacy, David Miller and Frylinck, considering the Dolphins declared on 567, a lead of 208. With time running out and the rain in the air, not enough time to get a result and the lions had reduced its deficit with Petersen half a century, and built a lead of 52 to the end of the game a lot.
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