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Franchise Protests as Border beat Griqualand West

Border, with two games left to play, have made a bold bid for a Standard BankCup semi-final place with a win over Griqualand West in Kimberley

Wisden Cricinfo staff
12-Feb-2004
Border 239 for 3 (Henderson 126*, Pope 50) beat Griqualand West 236 (Koortzen 64, Gidley 52, Bosman 42, Henderson 3-45) by 7 wickets
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Border, with two games left to play, have made a bold bid for a Standard Bank Cup semi-final place with a win over Griqualand West in Kimberley. Griqualand West, losing, see their hopes of a place in the final four fall by the wayside.
During the evening supper break some disgruntled members of the Griqualand West community held an on-field peaceful protest against the recent announcement that neighbours Free State had won the cricket franchise for the area. A memorandum was handed over to the CEO of Griqualand West Cricket Board for forwarding to the United Cricket Board of South Africa.
Winning the toss and batting first Griquas made the perfect start with Pieter Koortzen and Martin Gidley putting on 89 for the first wicket. Gidley (52) was first to lose his wicket and was replaced by Benjamin Hector who added a patient 27. With the loss of Koortzen (64), on 148, Loots Bosman was allowed to score freely, and hit three sixes and two fours in his innings of 42 from 22 balls.
Losing five wickets for 32 runs in the final six overs did not do any justice to the Griqualand innings as they were bowled out for 236. Tyron Henderson the pick of the Border bowlers taking 3 for 45.
Border starting slowly and lost two early wickets. They quickly fell behind the required run rate. Henderson, sent in up the order, got the runs flowing with his flurry bringing up his 50 in 47 balls and his first 100 in 85. Steven Pope, a very willing partner and content to rotate the strike, lost his wicket after reaching his 50 in 65 balls. The partnership was worth 138 runs and set Border up for the win.
Craig Sugden, scoring a quick 28 off 17 balls helped Henderson, finishing on a career best 126, to reach the target in the 44th over.