Mustangs, Sultans hold their nerve

The Citizen NaN days ago

There were some wonderful individual performances over the weekend.

Azhar Suleman (Challengers XI) goes legside for another boundary.

Seven matches across three divisions took place under blazing sunshine – and then later gloomy cloud cover last Sunday.

Two matches were stopped due to poor light, with both resulting in extremely narrow winning margins.

Mustangs Cricket Club looking slick in their new kit.

Some of the teams were without regular star players who were called up for Southern KZN duty, as some of these players were away on provincial duty.

The end result is the Southern KZN 30 Over Cup is approaching the knockout stage, with a few fixtures to go to decide who will qualify.

DIVISION 1
* Harding CC beat Legends CC by 8 wickets.
Legends CC 61 all out in 16 overs.
Sohail Desai 23 (28), Sahal Mansoor 12 (9).
Matthew Ewart 4-6 (2), Sven Rossler 3-12 (6), George Payn 2-14 (3).
Harding CC 66-2 in 13.2 overs.
Brandon Payn 29* (30), Craig Hattingh 21 (36).
Sohail Desai 1-3 (2), Sahal Mansoor 1-24 (5).

* Port Shepstone CC beat Kokstad Bombay by 5 wickets.
Kokstad Bombay 138-6 in 30 overs.
Talha Moola 37 (58), Tosif Godar 28 (42), Ilyas Surti 18 (24), Gaffar Sattar 14 (13).
Cody Mortimer 2-21 (6), Gershion Lawrence 2-22 (6).
Port Shepstone 139-5 in 20.1 overs.
Cody Mortimer 35 (32), Gershion Lawrence 23 (30), Blake Statt 21* (14), Morné Bishop 15 (19).
Imran Razakazi 2-39 (6).

DIVISION 2
* Harding Sultans beat Sezela by 1 wicket.
Sezela 91 all out in 17.4 overs.
Julian Rivetti 30 (20), Angelo Scarpa 15 (15), Stefan Hoffmann 13 (13).
Waseem 3-6 (2), Shezad Chand 3-9 (2.4), Karmat Hussay 2-17 (5).
Harding 94-9 in 12.4 overs.
Wali Raza 48 (25).
Matt Loubser 4-23 (4), Keegan Wallis 3-28 (5), Benjamin Kunz 2-10 (1.4).

* Bizana XI beat Port Edward Warriors by 136 runs.
Bizana 213 all out in 28 overs.
Shahid Gujjar 69 (50), Tariq Mahmood 66 (51).
Minhas Ayub 5-47 (6), Abdul Hamid 2-28 (6), Sajib Hassan 2-43 (6).
Port Edward
Satya Dhaka 18 (13), Minhas Ayub 18 (15).
Abdur Rehman 4-29 (6), Umar Hayat 3-3 (4).

* Legends B beat Punjab XI by 116 runs.
Legends B 211-5 in 30 overs.
Feijan 53* (25), Yusuf Moosa 53 (41), Riyadh Moola 40 (34), Yusuf Moola 38 (64).
Malwande 2-31 (6), Saaki Khan 2-42 (6).
Punjab XI
95-2 in 13 overs.
Sakib 59* (50), Afzal 29* (20). Muhammad Moola 1-24 (3).

DIVISION 3
* Wolfpack beat Vikings B by 7 wickets.
Vikings B 126 all out in 22.3 overs.
Jared Myburgh 25 (23), Ryno Winterboer 19 (23), Rudi Smit 17 (10), Justin Hubsch 15 (30).
Avinash Manilall 3-17 (6), Kreesen Naicker 2-9 (2.3), Raphael Smithwick 2-12 (3).
Wolfpack 132-3 in 13.4 overs.
Ayanda Jili 83* (31), Trishay Ramdhaw 24 (13). Ryno Winterboer 3-45 (4).

* Mustangs beat Challengers XI by 2 wickets.
Challengers 161 all out in 27 overs.
Azhar Suleman 37 (20), Suhail Peerbhay 31 (37), Reuben Kunz 23 (13), Daniel Rush 16 (42).
Lance Hargreaves 3-27 (4), Ashtin Wilson 2-11 (6).
Mustangs 131-8 in 24.1 overs.
Theo Goldstone 66 (29), Roland Rampear 22 (24), Eleck Nagel 14 (29).
Benjamin Kunz 3-10 (4), Damion Bezuidenhout 2-15 (2), Ayoob Ebrahim 2-33 (6).

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