• Richards strikes third ton in three innings

    Joshua Richards and Victor Mahlangu carried their ton-scoring form of the 3-Day Cup through to the latest round of CSA Provincial One-Day Challenge matches as both scored white ball tons as Eastern Province, KZN Inland, Gauteng and Northerns all picked up wins.

    Eastern Province 200 (EM Moore 61, MP Breetzke 51, O Nyaku 21; MJ Ackerman 4-26, KA Cele 2-20)
    KwaZulu-Natal 136 (T Koen 30 not out, B Capell 26, P Subrayen 21, S Nhlebela 20; KR Smuts 5-34, KT Smith 2-9, O Nyaku 2-24)
    Eastern Province won by 64 runs

    Scorecard

    Free State 211 (RK Terblanche 52, P Mogoera 40, R van Tonder 27, T Mnyaka 22; G Dukes 4-39, R Pretorius 2-27, S Mahmoud 2-40, K Nipper 2-46)
    KwaZulu-Natal Inland 216-5 (R Pretorius 63 not out, C Chetty 58, G Dukes 36 not out; SA Whitehead 2-39, B Swanepoel 2-51, N van Heerden 1-29)
    KwaZulu-Natal Inland won by 5 wickets with 76 balls in hand

    Scorecard

    Northern Cape 197 (D Bruwer 45, PE Kruger 35, K Mohale 32, A Mnci 26, LL Mnyanda 25, T Traugott 20; M Ramothata 3-28, C Classen 3-35, D Potgieter 2-27)
    Gauteng 198-3 (J Richards 100, SC Cook 34, Muhammed Mayet 34, DA Hendricks 20 not out; AE Kula 2-46, T Maupa 1-43)
    Gauteng won by 7 wickets with 101 balls in hand

    Scorecard

    North West 223 (NJ van den Bergh 44, MY Cook 39, S Dadswell 38, R Haasbroek 30, BL Barends 22; R de Swardt 3-29, GVJ Koopman 3-37, SA Mothoa 2-26, G Mahlokwana 2-38)
    Northerns 225-3 (VB Mahlangu 107 not out, N Brand 47, R Moonsamy 30 not out, DS Rosier 21; JN Diseko 2-51, L Steenkamp 1-17)
    Northerns won by 7 wickets with 33 balls in hand

    Scorecard

    Photo: Cricket South Africa

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    Simon Lewis