Aronstam and Myburgh strike hundreds as Northerns draw

Northerns 240 for 8 dec and 262 for 4 dec (Aronstam 101, Myburgh 100*) drew with Border 235 for 9 dec and 128 for 4
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In East London, Border and Northerns called the game off early with neither side in a position to win as time ran out.

Maurice Aronstam and Johann Myburgh both completed hundreds as they put on 173 for the second wicket allowing Northerns to declare on 262 for 4 and a lead of 267.

Border were in no position to chase the target and played out for the draw ending on 128 for four when the captains decided to call the match off as a draw.

Gauteng 292 and 109 for 2 (Snijman 63*) beat Easterns 183 for 9 dec and 217 (Seymore 63, de Bruyn 86) by 8 wickets
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Gauteng completed an eight wicket win over Easterns at Willowmoore Park in Benoni. Chasing a target of 109 Gauteng raced to victory in 22.2 overs with Blake Snijman scoring 63 not out in 70 balls.

Earlier the Easterns batsmen struggled against the seam of Ryan Groeneveld (3-25) and Nicholas Mataboge (3-24) with only Andre Seymore (63) and Pierre de Bruyn (86) able to show any resistance as Easterns were bowled out 217.

Griqualand West 319 and 232 (Brooker 57, Bossenger 58, Birch 4-48, Tsotsobe 3-43) drew with Eastern Province 320 and 195 for 7 (Price 86, Coetzee 3-29)
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In Port Elizabeth Eastern Province and Griqualand West settled for a draw as Eastern Province held out in a chase of 232 to end on 195 for 7. Michael Price again failed to get to the hundred as he tried to up the Eastern province pace only to be stumped for 86.

With both teams having a chance to win the scales tipped to both side as the afternoon went on with Griquas falling 3 wickets short and Eastern Province ending 37 runs short when time ran out.