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Erwee and Baartman steer Dolphins to a bonus point win

───   MORGAN PIEK 13:57 Fri, 08 Oct 2021

Erwee and Baartman steer Dolphins to a bonus point win | News Article
Sarel Erwee - Gallo

The Dolphins are off the mark in Pool C of the CSA T20 Knockout in Bloemfontein after beating the North West Dragons by 8 wickets at the Mangaung Oval.

The Dragons had a bat first on a very good wicket but after solid start they limped to 128/8 in their allotted 20 overs.

Eben Botha impressed with 41 runs off of 17 balls in a good knock for the team from Potchefstroom, but he enjoyed little support from his fellow batsman. He can consider himself very unlucky as the that trapped him LBW appeared to be going down leg and missing leg stump.

The Dragons second best player with the bat was his fellow opening batter, Wesley Marshall, who scored just 18 runs.

The Knights seamer, Ottniel Baartman recorded the best bowling figures of the tournament with 4/20 in his 4 overs and his performance set up the will after the Dolphins were very poor in the opening overs with the ball.

Sarel Erwee scored 68 for the Dolphins as they managed to chase down the target in 15.1 overs for a bonus point win.

The captain and former Dolphin, Senuran Muthusamy, was the Dragons best performer with the ball. The Proteas Test cricketer, Muthusamy, who was also on debut took one wicket for 26 runs in 3.1 overs.

The Dolphins will take a lot of confidence from the win, while the Dragons cannot to be too hard on themselves with their performance, especially taking into account they are without six frontline players were are all injured.

Morgan Piek OFM Sport

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