Stephen Cook

A tense three-day match ended anticlimactically after New Zealand set the Highveld Lions an impossible target of 433 in less than 50 overs

A big crowd of nearly 8000 at the Wanderers watched as Gauteng overhauled Northerns' total with two balls to spare, to set up a home final next week against Easterns

Gauteng defeated Northerns, but rain washed out the fixtures at Benoni and Centurion

Judging by his innings for Northerns in Centurion, Jacques Rudolph is not going to gift his place in the national team

Western Province overpowered Eastern Province in the Bay while Justin Kemp's maiden Standard Bank Cup hundred could not have come at a better time, as he smashed Northerns to an exciting win in Centurion

A round-up of the first set of matches of the Standard Bank Cup