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Coach left red-faced after Easterns' ten-wicket defeat

Mar 11, 2001: Easterns' embarrassment at a sub-par home performance against North West was complete on Sunday morning when it extended to their coach, Ray Jennings

Victory a formality for North West over Easterns

Mar 10, 2001: Bad light prevented North West coasting to victory over Easterns at Willowmoore Park on Saturday, although with just 29 left for victory for the visitors, with all ten second innings wickets standing, that only represented a stay of execution

Easterns' final hopes dealt another blow

Mar 9, 2001: North West dealt another blow to Easterns' fading hopes of reaching this month's Supersport Series final when they carved out a potentially match-winning lead of 230 on Friday

Thomas takes Easterns apart with six for 26

Mar 9, 2001: Medium-pacer Alfonso Thomas, who has made his name as an obdurate lower-order batsman in his first season with North West - he has a century and an unbeaten 95 to his credit already - destroyed the Easterns batting line-up with a career-best six for

Paarl, Benoni join World Cup party

Mar 5, 2001: Boland Park in Paarl and Willowmoore Park in Benoni will join South Africa's World Cup party in two years' time, the executive director of CWC 2003, Ali Bacher announced on Monday

Donald and Venter have Easterns on the back foot

Feb 1, 2001: Free State probably shaded the first day of their Supersport Series Super Eight encounter against Easterns at Willowmoore Park, although the home side had made some inroads into their batting order by the close

Easterns crash out of semis contention by one run

Jan 24, 2001: Easterns, needing a victory to edge Eastern Province out of semi-final qualification, provided the disgruntled fans who braved a chilly Willowmoore Park until the midnight finish with a masterclass on the art of throwing a game away, as they

Crookes and De Bruyn carry Easterns to victory

Nov 6, 2000: The inexperience of an Eastern Province bowling attack missing Mornantau Hayward, Meyrick Pringle and Garnett Kruger was ruthlessly exposed on Monday as Easterns cantered to a five-wicket victory in their Supersport Series match at Willowmoore Park

Defiant Murray thwarts Easterns

Nov 5, 2000: Recent history repeated itself at Willowmoore Park on Sunday when Easterns again had Eastern Province reeling in their Supersport Series match, but were unable to wrap up their tail cheaply

Callaghan sparks EP collapse

Nov 5, 2000: Easterns threw away the initiative on the second day of their Supersport Series match against Eastern Province at Willowmoore Park on Saturday, having had the visitors reeling at 140 for eight in the morning session

Easterns in charge before the rain comes down

Nov 3, 2000: Rain severely curtailed the first day's play in the Supersport Series match between Easterns and Eastern Province at Willowmoore Park on Friday, but in the 40.2 overs which were possible, Easterns continued this season's impressive form, reducing the

2nd Match, South Africa v New Zealand, Statistical Highlights

Nov 3, 2000: It was the 1643rd ODI in cricket history

De Bruyn shines for Easterns

Oct 28, 2000: A sublime 83 from 23-year-old Pierre de Bruyn guided Easterns to a first innings total of 222 for eight when bad light ended play on the first day of their Supersport Series match against the KwaZulu-Natal Dolphins at Willowmoore Park in Benoni on

Dolphins squad for Benoni

Oct 23, 2000: The team will be selected from the squad of 14: 1

South Africa complete comfortable victory to take series lead over New Zealand

Oct 22, 2000: Stephen Fleming had been looking forward to winning in Benoni on Sunday, he said, "to give the wicket some"

Easterns vs KwaZulu-Natal at Benoni

Oct 12, 2000: Rain briefly threatened to disrupt Easterns' victory party on Wednesday, but despite two brief interruptions, the weather gods were unable to prevent them from beating KwaZulu-Natal by 79 runs at Willowmoore Park

Easterns make heavy weather of defeat of Border

Oct 6, 2000: Easterns allowed what should have been a comfortable victory over Border in their first Standard Bank Cup match of the campaign to turn into something of a sweat before eventually triumphing by 15 runs

Kenny Benjamin signs for Easterns

Sep 22, 2000: After a very successful half season with Gauteng ex West Indies international Kenny Benjamin has decided to break his ties with the powerful Johannesburg based team and move across the highway to sign for Easterns

World Cup cash bonanza looms for Test venues

May 15, 2000: Whoever loses during the 2003 World Cup program, it is not going to be the treasurers running the six Test unions in South Africa and which are to host five games each during the month-long event