• Cobras look to book home final

    The Cape Cobras will seal a home final in the Momentum One-Day Cup if they beat the Dolphins in Cape Town on Friday.

    The Cape side are currently top of the log on 29 points, while the Dolphins are third with 18.

    The Warriors will be keeping a close eye on this game. They face the Titans in the second game on Friday afternoon and will be hoping for a Cobras win.

    The Warriors ended the Knights’ participation in the Cup when they beat them on Wednesday by four wickets, while keeping their own play-off ambitions alive. Friday’s game will be their second in two days, before they make it three games in five days on Sunday when they face the Lions in East London.

    The Warriors can still sneak into the play-offs if they win their last two games, and will be hoping for a Cobras victory against the Dolphins.

    They will be cautious, however, not to pay too much attention to what happens at Newlands, because splitting their focus could cost them against the Titans and then it doesn’t matter what happens in Cape Town.

    Should the Warriors win, they will be one step closer to achieving the remarkable, even though they probably don’t deserve it.

    Both games start at 15:00.

    HOW THEY STAND

    P W L NR Pts Net RR
    Cobras 9 6 2 1 29 +0.508
    Titans 8 5 2 1 21 +0.360
    Dolphins 8 3 2 3 18 +0.010
    Lions 9 3 4 1 15 -0.113
    Knights 10 2 6 2 14 -0.416
    Warriors 8 3 5 0 12 -0.249

    MOST RUNS

    Inn NO Runs HS Aver
    Andrew Puttick 8 1 539 101 77.00
    JJ Smuts 8 0 440 94 55.00
    Colin Ingram 8 0 428 101 53.50
    Rudi Second 8 0 397 107 49.62
    Theunis de Bruyn 6 1 395 152* 79.00
    Morne van Wyk 7 3 386 175* 96.50
    Michael Price 8 0 341 95 42.62
    Stephen Cook 9 0 328 102 36.55
    Rowan Hendricks 6 0 325 181 54.16
    Alviro Petersen 7 0 311 76 44.42

    MOST WICKETS

    Overs Runs Wkts BB Aver
    Robin Peterson 76.0 286 16 5-25 17.87
    Dillon du Preez 83.4 406 16 4-34 25.37
    Lundi Mbane 64.0 376 13 4-47 28.92
    Lonwabo Tsotsobe 49.0 217 12 5-44 18.08
    Marchant de Lange 46.1 252 12 4-54 21.00
    Dwaine Pretorius 60.0 260 12 4-35 21.66
    Robbie Frylinck 57.0 342 11 4-30 31.09
    Rory Kleinveldt 69.0 287 10 3-28 28.70
    Mthokozisi Shezi 47.3 250 9 4-38 27.77
    Ethy Mbhalati 45.1 286 9 3-35 31.77

    WICKETKEEPER DISMISSALS
    15 Dane Vilas (Cobras)
    9 Mangaliso Mosehle (Dolphins)
    8 Rudi Second (Knights)
    7 Thami Tsolekile (Lions)
    6 Morne van Wyk (Dolphins)
    3 Colin Ingram (Warriors)
    2 Quinton de Kock (Lions), Athenkosi Dyili (Warriors)

    OUTFIELD CATCHES
    7 Andrew Puttick (Cape Cobras)
    5 Justin Ontong (Cape Cobras), Vaughan van Jaarsveld (Dolphins), Ryan Bailey (Warriors)