Rudolph waves his bat at selectors

Jacques Rudolph continues to terrorise opposition bowlers in the Transco Lancashire League with another hundred. Rudolph is now the Lancashire League's leading run scorer with 881 runs from 14 innings. The current Lowerhouse professional has scored 675 runs in his last 6 innings, including a club record of four successive centuries.

Rudolph has now overtaken the great West Indian Everton Weekes, who hit three centuries in a row in 1951 and more recently Burnley's Geoff Foley who achieved the feat in 2000. Rudolph hit 126 with eight fours and seven sixes.

Not to be outdone his fellow South Africans continued their form with Pierre Joubert scoring 98, Martin van Jaarsveld 93 not out, Andre Seymore 83, Andrew Hall 67 and Con de Lange 48. Paul Adams with four off the bat was the exception.

Of the bowlers Hall took 3/31, Van Jaarsveld 3/33 and De Lange 2/38. Joubert with 0/20 and Adams with 0/81 could not take any wickets.

Tour matches being played in England has meant that most of the South Africans playing County cricket have earned a rest. For those that did grace the fields three hundreds and a five wicket haul resulted.

Sven Koenig scored his fourth century of the first class season, a 113, in a drawn match for Middlesex against Essex. He followed that up with five in the second innings. Koenig is now the leading scorer for Middlesex with 846 runs at an average of 60.42.

Mark Davis scored 111, his first century of the season for Sussex, in an innings win against Somerset. He also returned bowling figures of 2/20 and 2/88.

The third hundred came from Nottinghamshire's Kevin Pietersen. He scored his first century of the season, when scoring 103 not out against Derbyshire. Nicky Boje was not in the same form with the bat, getting a duck, but did manage figures of 4/45 and 5/66 with the ball. Greg Smith scored three and took 1/46 and 0/20.

In the same match Andrew Gait scored his third and fourth half century of the season with a 76 and 53 for Derby.

In one of the tour matches Neil Johnson scored a 45 against the Indians. He also took 1/45 in a shortened Indian innings.

None of the other South Africans playing county cricket were in action this week.