{"id":42204,"date":"2016-01-29T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/42204\/mcdonald-boer-met-grenshoue\/"},"modified":"2016-01-29T09:05:27","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T07:05:27","slug":"mcdonald-boer-met-grenshoue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2016\/01\/29\/mcdonald-boer-met-grenshoue\/","title":{"rendered":"McDonald boer met grenshoue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Die skool het die Laevelders met 16 lopies getroef om as die provinsiale blitskrieketkampioen gekroon te word. En voor in die MHS-kolfkoor is Donovan McDonald.<\/p>\n<p>Die veelsydige matrikulant het die langsteel beh\u00f3\u00f3rlik ingel\u00ea om 53 lopies van slegs 31 aflewerings in die eindstryd te moker.<\/p>\n<p>Sy warrelwindbeurt het teen &#8216;n indrukwekkende treftempo van 170.9 gekom. Om di\u00e9 statistiek in perspektief te plaas: van die 19 kolwers wat in die onlangse finaal van die Big Bash League in Australi\u00eb gekolf het, het slegs Kevin Pietersen, Usman Khawaja en Aiden Blizzard teen &#8216;n vinniger tempo lopies aangeteken.<\/p>\n<p>Daarna het Darius Millard vier paaltjies geneem om die Nelspruiters se lopiejaagtog in die wiele te ry.<\/p>\n<p>McDonald &#8211; &#8216;n oud-Koedoekop &#8211; spog met &#8216;n hoogste telling van 87 in skoolkrieket, terwyl 4\/30 sy beste boulontleding is.<\/p>\n<p>Hy was al lid van die SA Bokkiespan wat in Dubai getoer het en hy beplan om volgende jaar klubkrieket in Engeland te speel.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ek is opgewonde oor ons span se kanse vanjaar en ek glo ons kan die liga wen,&#8221; laat weet hy Dinsdagoggend<\/p>\n<p>Met &#8216;n Middiekrieketspan wat name soos David Blenkinsop, Millard, Aiden Vandenbrouck, Arno Kruger, Andrew Martin, Elnu Potgieter en kie insluit, kan hulle vir nog &#8216;n paar seisoene sukses op die kolfblad vier.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Middies se bestes:<\/p>\n<p>* Klop Secunda met vyf lopies. David Blenkinsop slaan 39 van 41 aflewerings, terwyl Andrew Martin (2\/29) en Elnu Potgieter (1\/18) die Ho\u00ebvelders se lopiejaagtog gekniehalter het.<\/p>\n<p>* Klop Nelspruit met 16 lopies. McDonald slaan 53 van 31 balle, terwyl Millard 4\/2 geneem het.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Die span wag nog vir finale re\u00eblings oor hul verdere wedstryde in die Nasionale T20-reeks.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-42204 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2016\/01\/29\/mcdonald-boer-met-grenshoue\/attachment\/dariusmillard_08479\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"270\" height=\"203\" src=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2016\/01\/DariusMillard_08479-270x203.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-42206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2016\/01\/DariusMillard_08479-270x203.jpg 270w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2016\/01\/DariusMillard_08479-520x390.jpg 520w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2016\/01\/DariusMillard_08479.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-42206'>\n\t\t\t\tDarius Millard het vier paaltjies in die eindstryd laat kantel.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;n Skouspelagtige ineenstorting het in 2015 gesorg dat Ho\u00ebrskool Middelburg nie vir Nelspruit in die Mpumalanga T20-kampioenskap kon klop nie. Maar bordjies is egter gemaak om verhang te word en dit is presies wat Middies vanjaar gedoen het.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":42205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Johann Gresse","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2887,7,11,2,2886],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-sport","category-local-news","category-local-sports","category-news-headlines","category-sports-news"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}