In the third and final girls cricket league match against Southern Cross on Saturday, 15 September, the first girls cricket team of Merensky High School took a stand. They defeated their opponents, on their home ground, with a staggering 202 runs. Merensky set a goal of 285 runs, with Southern Cross achieving only 83. The star of the show was Merensky’s Khushi Mistry in grade 10. Apart from earning 5 wickets, she also made 177 runs from only 113 balls (which is the highest batting total in Merensky’s cricket history). This was an exemplary performance by Mistry who also plays for the senior Limpopo womans’ team. She was recently included…

PHOTO: 1st Team bowler Kieran Albertus and u.15 batsman Ockert Schoeman. Say it out loud, Plasies are cricket proud. Merensky High School’s 1st cricket team knew, that Ben Vorster High School knew, that the Plasies could beat them. This was proven to be true on Saturday, 1 September on Merensky’s cricket oval. After winning the toss in this league match, Ben Vorster decided to bat first and were all out for 63 runs in the 19th over. Kieran Albertus, best bowler, took 4 wickets in 6 overs, conceding only 25 runs. Louis Botha also did excellent work and took 3 wickets in 6 overs, conceding 22 runs. When the Plasies…

FOTO: Ockert Schoeman maak 12 lopies teen Nkowankowa. Die o.15-krieketseuns van Hoërskool Merensky spog in een week met twee pragoorwinnings. Dié span het op Woensdag, 15 Augustus, teen die span van Hoërskool Ben Vorster te staan gekom. Die Plasies kolf eerste en teken 97 lopies aan, almal uit. Abri Wheelan en Hendrik Botes maak hul merk deur onderskeidelik 18 en 13 lopies aan te teken. Die Vossies kry ‘n kans om te kolf, maar word almal uitgeboul vir 59 lopies. Christian Barnard neem 4 paaltjies en veelsydige speler, Hendrik Botes, neem 3 paaltjies. Merensky wen Ben Vorster met 38 lopies. Op Saterdag, 18 Augustus, was oorwinning steeds in die lug…