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	It’s testing times for Sachin Tendulkar and Mahendra Singh Dhoni © AFP

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When Mahendra Singh Dhoni leads his boys against last-placed Deccan Chargers in Hyderabad, he would expect nothing but a win which will ensure his team’s spot in the final four. Chennai are currently on 14 points, and victory in their final match will see them jump to 16, and whatever Mumbai does, Chennai will still be through as Delhi Daredevils finished on 15.Things, however, will become complex if Chennai lose to Deccan. Chennai will then be stuck on 14, and their way through will depend on Mumbai’s results. If Mumbai lose their final two games, they will end on 12 points, two shy of Chennai. If Mumbai win one of the remaining two, they would need to suffer a big defeat if Chennai are to qualify for the semi-finals.If, due to rain or any other circumstance, a result is not possible in Hyderabad, then Chennai will reach 15 points. To go through, they will then need Mumbai to lose one of their games.Mumbai Indians
For Mumbai, currently on 12 points, two wins – against Rajasthan Royals and Bangalore Royal Challengers – will guarantee them a place in the semi-finals irrespective of what Chennai do. If they lose one, Chennai must suffer a reverse in their last game against Deccan. Also, Mumbai must ensure they do not lose by significant margins, or they could squander the net run-rate advantage they have over Chennai.In case Mumbai win one and get one point from the other (if the match is abandoned), they will make the cut, while a loss and one point from the other or two losses will result in Chennai and Delhi joining Rajasthan and Kings XI Punjab in the semi-finals.

	Steve Harmison is back in the England side for the final Test © Getty Images

Kevin Pietersen has unveiled an attacking line-up for his first match as England captain, against South Africa at The Oval, with two key changes from the side that lost the third Test, and the series, at Edgbaston last week.As widely predicted, Steve Harmison returns for his first outing since the defeat against New Zealand at Hamilton in March, as a replacement for Ryan Sidebottom who was noticeably off the pace in the last match after missing the second Test with a back injury.”Sidey’s struggling with a few niggles,” said Pietersen. “We all saw he was down on pace last week, so he’s not fit at the moment and we decided to give him a bit of a break to get away from things. But Steve is buzzing, properly buzzing. You can see that little smile on his face, and he’ll be given the responsibility to take the new ball tomorrow.”Also recalled is Stuart Broad, who had been expected to miss out to give Ravi Bopara his second chance to cement a role as a Test batsman, after a torrid debut series in Sri Lanka in December. Instead, Broad’s prowess with the bat has been acknowledged, and he will slot into a potent lower-middle order which begins with Andrew Flintoff moving up one position to No. 6.”We need the extra bowler,” said Pietersen. “It’s a positive move, an aggressive move, and it’s one where Mooresy [Peter Moores] and I have come to sing off the same hymn-sheet, which is a good start for us. It’s given the batters the responsibility to score the runs, and Fred’s happy at 6. I spoke to him and he said: ‘Whatever you want to do, I’m there for you,’ which is great from the big man.”Following Michael Vaughan’s resignation and withdrawal from this Test, Ian Bell moves up from No. 5 to the No. 3 position that he has long coveted, with Paul Collingwood – England’s centurion at Edgbaston – reverting to his former position at No. 5.”Bell’s going to get the responsibility at 3, and he wants that because he’s played 40-odd Test matches now and he’s been everywhere from 1 to 7,” said Pietersen. “Flintoff, the way he’s batted for us this summer, he’s looked to build an innings and he’s looked real real good. He balances the side beautifully at 6, and with Stuart at 8, that’s a real strong side.”After the rumours about his strained relationship with Moores, Pietersen was keen to emphasise how much co-operation had gone on between the two men in the selection of the side, although it was left to the coach to inform Bopara of his omission. But once the team takes the field at The Oval on Thursday morning, there’s no question who is going to be in charge.”It’s time to draw a line under what’s happened, and start again afresh,” said Pietersen. “I think the recipe for success that I’ve tried to use is do it my way. Once you go over the white line, to express yourself, and do whatever you need to do to be successful. Trust your practice, and trust your instinct, and trust what you’ve done the day before or the week before. And go out and do it.”That’s what I want my lads to do,” he said. “Passion is a big word, but international cricket can roll into, day in, day out, train and play, train and play. The big feature for us this week is to get back to playing with real pride and passion, and get back to playing with confidence and without fear.”For all his bravado, there are several aspects of the leadership that will still be a mystery to Pietersen come Thursday morning. He had put little thought to where he himself will be fielding, for instance, and though he was looking forward with pride to the moment he walks out to toss up with Graeme Smith, he admitted that he has little idea about how to read a pitch.”It’s something I will definitely have to improve on,” he said. “I’ve always believed that if you win the toss and you want to bat, you bat. If you don’t think you’re sure, you still bat, and if you’re really not sure, you think for ten seconds then you still bat again. That’s what I’ve been told, but I’ve never been a captain in a Test match.”All that is about to change, as England prepare to launch their new era. “It hasn’t really sunk in properly yet, but I’ve got to do the simple things right,” said Pietersen. “I’ve been under pressure ever since I came to England eight years ago, but I know what a great honour this is, and I’m going to give it a real good go. If I make a success of it, I make a success of it, but if I don’t I’ll be man enough to know I’ve got to go back and bat.”England 1 Andrew Strauss, 2 Alastair Cook, 3 Ian Bell, 4 Kevin Pietersen (capt), 5 Paul Collingwood, 6 Andrew Flintoff, 7 Tim Ambrose (wk), 8 Stuart Broad, 9 Steve Harmison, 10 James Anderson, 11 Monty Panesar.

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	Iain Sutcliffe’s fifty gave Lancashire a platform © Getty Images

Lancashire perhaps had slightly the better of a bread-and-butter opening day at Old Trafford, thanks to a determined and invaluable opening partnership of 109 between Paul Horton and Iain Sutcliffe when conditions were the most testing. They did not quite build as they might have done on such a good foundation, with three batsmen getting out after scoring good fifties, but a fourth in Steven Croft is still there, and his team will be looking for him to play the leading role in building a daunting total tomorrow.Lancashire won a toss they might have preferred to lose, given that swing was likely under an overcast sky. The pitch itself played soundly enough on the whole, giving some help to the bowlers, even Graeme Swann’s offspin on the first day, but not enough to interest the ECB pitch inspector, Mike Denness, who arrived by train from his home in Essex, after the previous championship match on this ground, against Durham, had finished before lunch on the third day.A minor curiosity in this match is that the two captains are both wicketkeepers: Chris Read, the official captain of Nottinghamshire, and Luke Sutton, standing in for the injured Lancashire skipper Stuart Law. The ball did indeed swing copiously at times, especially early on and especially when the medium-pacer Mark Ealham was using it. Ealham came into the action early on, as Charlie Shreck had difficulty finding his line from the Brian Statham End, although later he came back with better results from the Stretford End.The Lancashire openers, Horton and Sutcliffe, did a superb job for their team as they saw off the difficult overs with the shine still on the ball, and survived until after lunch in their team’s first century opening stand of the season in any competition. Inevitably there were a few plays-and-misses, but on the whole remarkably few errors, and they also managed to take advantage of loose deliveries to keep the scoreboard ticking along.Ealham was the most difficult of the bowlers to face, swinging the ball considerably away from the right-hander and bowling a good line and length; with a little more pace, he may well have been lethal. Again, the openers handled him with great skill and judgement.Sutcliffe was the first to his fifty (91 balls), just after lunch, reaching it with one of his few errors, an edge that would have been a chance had third slip been in place, but instead flew between second slip and gully to the boundary. He then survived a very close lbw appeal against Ealham, before Horton reached his 50 (112 balls) – ironically also with a false stroke, an inside-edge that missed the off stump and shot to the left of the keeper to the boundary.Then came disaster for Lancashire, as Horton played a ball into the covers, called for a quick single, and a superb pick-up and direct hit from Adam Voges found the irate Sutcliffe just short of his crease. He made exactly 50 of the 109-run partnership. The balance of the match swung as Horton (64) fell to the swing of Ealham, well caught one-handed by Swann at slip, who then also caught a struggling Mal Loye (3) in the same position as he edged a rather desperate slash off Shreck. With Lou Vincent, clearly out of practice in his first first-class match of the year, bottom-edging a hook off Shreck to the keeper for 5, Lancashire slumped to 131 for 4 and the balance of the match had quite shifted.The situation did not faze ‘Faf’ du Plessis, the South African still undervalued by home supporters. He and Steven Croft began cautiously, but du Plessis grew in confidence and the pair gradually pulled their team out of the mire. They put on 84 together, but du Plessis was another whose valuable fifty (105 balls) was not converted into three figures; he flicked at an arm ball from Swann outside off stump and was caught by the keeper for 55.Croft appeared to be much slower, but in fact he had less of the strike. Just before the close he reached his fifty off 117 balls, and then survived a hard low catch to slip off the petulant Swann. Hard as the Notts bowlers tried, they could effect no further breakthroughs, and Croft survived to make an attempt tomorrow morning to reach the century he narrowly missed in his last match at Headingley.

Indian seamer Javagal Srinath is included in the Leicestershire squad and is all set to play in the floodlit Norwich Union League match against Kent at Canterbury on Wednesday, and the Championship game which starts the following day.Srinath has signed on as Leicestershire’s overseas player until the end of the season in place of Michael Bevan, who has now joined up with the Australian one-day squad.The debut of Srinath coincides with the debut of Steve Waugh for Kent, and a big crowd is guaranteed at Canterbury for the clash.Srinath will come into the side in place of fellow Indian star Mohammad Kaif, who joined Leicestershire on a five-day contract last week and played in the County Championbship defeat by Surrey and the Norwich Union League win over Yorkshire.Leicestershire also hope to have their captain Vince Wells back in action after he was ruled out for the two games last week by a groin injury. He will have a fitness test on Wednesday before a decision is taken.Fast bowlers Devon Malcolm and Matt Whiley are not in the squad for the Norwich Union League match, but will return for the Championship game in place of Charles Dagnall and Jamie Grove.

The Ces Dacre Files: Part OneCes Dacre was a pioneer in New Zealand cricket, the first professional to make his mark after playing for New Zealand, he qualified for the Gloucestershire club in 1930. Upon his return to New Zealand, he wrote a series of articles on his career for the long defunct New Zealand Observer. CricInfo New Zealand editor Lynn McConnell has used these articles as the basis of this feature series on one of the legends of the New Zealand game.

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In a country which has produced some notable big-hitters, Nathan Astle, Chris and Lance Cairns, John Reid, Bert Sutcliffe, Bruce Taylor, Ken Wadsworth, Jock Edwards and Craig McMillan, Ces Dacre was head of the queue, and by New Zealand standards, well ahead of his time.After touring England as vice-captain of the 1927 team, a tour on which he became the first New Zealander to score a century at Lord’s, he returned to England to play for Gloucestershire, for whom he qualified in 1930. During his first season he repaid the English county’s support by scoring 233, his highest score in a career which included 24 centuries.Thriving in the county scene, he became regarded as one of the bigger hitters in the game, and in 1931 led the country for the most sixes hit over the summer, 32 of them. It wasn’t just a fluke, as on the 1927 tour he hit 21 sixes and in the season of 1932 he hit 16.Although Dacre never played Test cricket, he did fashion an outstanding record and scored 12,230 runs at 29.18 during a 21-season career.A product of Auckland’s North Shore, his Devonport school team won the Auckland primary schools’ championship for seven years in succession. It was in these first years in cricket that he developed his taste for the big hit.”During my school career, we had some big hitters in the sides I played with, and it gave me great delight to see some of the senior players pepper the roofs of houses or even break a few windows. But in a year or so my turn to do the same came along, and many a ball I hit into a fowl yard and scattered the hens in all directions,” he recalled in his reminiscences in the New Zealand Observer.”I remember one old lady giving me a little advice when I became a nuisance to her garden. It was my first year as captain of the school eleven, and that year I had a great year with the bat. I had batted ten times and made seven centuries, including a 200 not out at Victoria Park, and every run run out.”This Saturday morning I was well on my way to three figures when the dear old lady came and asked me to take the school team to town every match as, much as she admired my cricket, she hated to see a dozen or so young boys sitting on the fence ready to retrieve any lost ball and so destroy her vegetable garden.”While at primary school, Dacre was coached by four different English professionals, A E Relf, Frank Shacklock, Dick Pearson and George Thompson. He regarded Shacklock as the pick of them.”The Notts player was a very thorough coach with boys, and I have seen him stand beside a boy for at least a couple of minutes until he was satisfied you had played the shot correctly.”Dacre’s march through the grades was impressive and he played his first senior match at the age of 14 and scored his first century for the North Shore side, against Waitemata, at Victoria Park.”The late Ted Sale was my captain, and I remember to this day how he came to me and congratulated me on my performance. I was very thrilled at the time, as I knew every word he said to me came from the bottom of his heart. He was one of nature’s gentlemen.”That same season, after scoring 184 in another senior game, he was invited to travel to Napier and Gisborne to play for E C Beale’s XI, and scored 83 and 48 at Napier.It is a reflection of the pre-World War One times Dacre grew up in, that the notion of playing at home on the back lawn was frowned upon by his mother.”Just before tea the whole family would arrive in the backyard ready for the fray. The only other dissenting voice would be raised by my mother, who would tell us we ought to feel ashamed of ourselves for playing on the Sabbath. But we generally made amends by escorting her to church.”Dacre said that while he was always playing cricket he didn’t take it that seriously during his youth, except when playing against his brothers and sisters. But he did remember one other occasion on the way home from a game for his North Shore fourth grade side.”I was strolling home and stopped to look at a match that was being played between two soft goods houses. One side had batted and the other team, one man short, had about 35 runs to get. Suddenly a gentleman came up to me and asked me if I played at all, so I said I played a bit. ‘Well son,’ he said, ‘will you be our last man in?’ I accepted his offer, donned a pair of big pads (they were nearly as big as myself) and in I went. I got the required runs and a few more as well, winning the match by one wicket. Delighted at beating their rivals, the winning eleven carried me off the field shoulder high, and could not do enough for me. They tried to persuade my father to let me go to the Masonic Hotel for dinner, but there was nothing doing.”During the winter months after dabbling in hockey at school, he took to soccer where he found he was not only a natural left-footed player, but also good off his right foot. His progress was notable and once making senior grade, again as a young player, he became a permanent fixture in the Auckland team. Selection for New Zealand followed in 1923 when the side toured Australia.”We had a very successful tour that year, as we beat the Aussies in two Tests out of three … There was no love lost between the New Zealand team and Australia. It was only a season before that an Australian team visited New Zealand, and in some of the games some hard words were used, so when we sallied forth to Australia the following winter we knew we would have to take some of the same medicine. We got some good gruellings up in the mining towns, but we never took it lying down, and what we got we gave back.”The last test match the Aussies were really after our blood, but we won a great game by 4 to 3.”But Dacre, who acknowledged he played the game hard – hard enough to have the nickname ‘Dirty Dacre’, was not a great one for practice and he recalled that several times selectors asked him when he was going to turn up for practice. “I was always deaf to such inquiries … But somehow I always managed to crawl into a side.”On another occasion he was approached by a selector: “I remember one poor selector giving me a good shake-up and telling me about all the other poor fellows doing their training in earnest, so he came to the conclusion that he must leave me out for the next rep match. I only smiled and started to walk away, but on the spur of the moment I turned and said: ‘You can’t leave me out of the side, as you must have someone who can put in the boot.’ He had to laugh and called me a few harsh names, but I was still in the side for the next game.”

SirVivian Richards with the South African team at Sabina Park 2001 Photo CricInfo

Yesterday, one of the Caribbean’s most celebrated sons and world renowned cricket icon reached another milestone in his wonderful innings of life. Sir IVA Richards, former West Indies captain and world record holder for the fastest Test century turned 50. Sir Viv jokingly said that he was “happy to get there with a single” as opposed to a boundary.Sir Viv, who started the day in Trinidad with a 30 minute prayer session – which was led by former West Indies faster bowler and current WICB president Rev. Wes Hall and attended by most of his former teammates – spent the better portion of his birthday in the land of his birth, Antigua.Richards, who was given a rousing welcome upon arrival, was the toast of the island. Speaking in an interview with CricInfo, Sir Viv said that he was “thankful to God”, and that he was “ecstatic about all the love and well wishes” that he received via the print and electronic media. Sir Viv also said that “it was good to be among so many greats and starting the day right with a 30 minute prayer session”.Sir Viv, who was in Trinidad attending a WICB sponsored conference aimed at updating and standardizing a coaching manual specifically for the West Indies, said that he felt the sessions were “useful” and that the discussions would bear fruit. Earlier, he once again indicated his willingness to serve West Indies cricket at the highest level. In 1999, the WICB overlooked Richards for the position of coach in favour of Roger Harper, whose contract expires in March 2003, along with the rest of the team’s current management staff.After spending most of the morning at home with his family, and graciously granting several interviews and receiving special birthday wishes from all sectors, Sir Viv said that he planned to spend the rest of the afternoon on the golf course where he “had a score to settle.”Just last weekend the player who had become known as “The Bull” or the “Master Blaster”, was honoured by the Anguilla Cricket Development Association at a special function at the Governor’s mansion. Speaking during that function, Sir Viv, who during his playing days gave opposing bowlers many a sleepless night, said: “I think it is a remarkable feat to be here and I’ve always had a pretty love-relationship with the Anguillan people.””I felt by just walking (around the ground) that the reception that one received it is a sign that the people seriously care about West Indies cricket and the things one did achieve in the past and I’m very grateful to be here and received all the wonderful things they have bestowed on me.”WICB’s vice president Val Banks, speaking during the ceremony, said that Sir Viv “epitomizes a love for West Indies that is a motivating force.” Banks also went on to state that Sir Viv “embodies the spirit of his native Antiguans, who are some of the Caribbean’s most positive people.”Sir Viv is now an ambassador for his native Antigua, and was honoured during a special ceremony at the Antigua Recreation Grounds during the West Indies v Pakistan Test in 2000. Sir Viv represented the West Indies from 1975 to 1991, and captained the West Indies from 1985. Sir Viv, who took over as captain from Clive Lloyd, was succeeded by his fellow Antiguan, Richie Richardson.

Hampshire select from the same 12 that travelled to Taunton for a one day friendly, for their opening Division I, Frizzell County Championship match against Kent at Canterbury on Friday-Monday 19th-22nd April 2002.Both John Crawley and Nic Pothas are expected to make their debuts for their new county.Hampshire Twelve: Robin Smith (captain), Will Kendall, Derek Kenway, John Crawley, Neil Johnson, Nic Pothas, Adi Aymes (wicket-keeper), Shaun Udal, Dimitri Mascarenhas, Alex Morris, Alan Mullally and Chris Tremlett.

Somerset Under 12′ have enjoyed mixed fortunes over the last few days.On June 23rd they played against Hampshire at Farleigh School. Batting first Somerset made 106 for 9n from their 45 overs, with Nick Gibbens top scoring with 32 and Jonathan Lodwick making 20.In reply Hampshire reached their target for the loss of five wickets.On June 27th at Wells Cathedral School they made amends by beating Warwickshire.Batting first Warwickshire were all out for 99. In response Somerset reached 101 for 3, Callum Haggett making 26, Jos Butler 20 and Tom Vickery an unbeaten 15.

Baroda are the current Ranji Trophy champions after they beat Railwaysin a cliffhanger at Gujarat State Fertilizer Corporation Ground,Baroda. Last year it was Mumbai who took the glory, defeatingHyderabad by 297 runs at the Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai, on the 23rdApril.Mumbai and Hyderabad were at full strength, given the fact that allthe leading batsmen had got amongst the runs in the semi-finals.Sachin Tendulkar and VVS Laxman were in brilliant form and it seemedthat the final match would be a high scoring one.Mohd. Azharuddin won the toss for Hyderabad and asked Mumbai to batfirst. It is not a practice in Indian domestic cricket to put theopposition in, given the nature of the wickets and the fact that mostmatches are decided on the virtue of the first innings lead.Mumbai did not have an ideal start, losing their captain Sameer Dighe(3). Sachin Tendulkar and Vinod Kambli got together at 72/3 and added104 runs for the fourth wicket. Tendulkar made 53 runs striking sevenboundaries and a six. Kambli (108) went on to reach his century withthe help of 15 fours. And, in the meanwhile he added 82 runs for thesixth wicket with Paras Mhambhrey.Ajit Agarkar (30) gave good support to Mhambrey and added 60 runs forthe seventh wicket. Mhambrey (75) played a crucial innings for Mumbai,punctuating his knock with seven boundaries. Mumbai were bowled outfor 376, with Venkatapathy Raju claiming 4/110.Hyderabad were bowled out for 195 in 64.4 overs, Ajit Agarkar (3/26)and Rajesh Pawar (3/44) doing most of the damage. VVS Laxman (46)riding on a triple hundred he made in the semi-finals was run out in atragic mix-up with Azharuddin (76). The two batsmen added 89 valuableruns for the third wicket. P Satwalkar (30) gave good support toAzharuddin, but the rest of the batting just caved in.Mumbai had a cracking start, scoring 103 runs for the first wicket.Wasim Jaffer (55), Dighe (46) and Jatin Paranjpe (42) all got amongstruns. The pitch was taking a lot of turn as the two Mumbai championbatsmen got together. Tendulkar and Kambli went on a run riot. Sixesand fours flowed in a hurry amongst a deluge of runs. Kambli (56) hitfive boundaries and three sixes as he went on to add 105 runs in just18.1 overs with Tendulkar.Tendulkar was not going to miss out on a big score in the secondinnings. He had the measure of the Hyderabad attack and went on doingwhat he does best, annihilating the bowling. He scored 128 runs off124 balls with the help of 13 strokes past the ropes and three hugeones over the fence. Mhambrey (30) again made a good contribution withthe bat. Mumbai scored 409 all out in the second innings, VenkatapathyRaju (5/123) and Kanwaljit Singh (4/136) toiled hard with the ball forHyderabad.Set an impossible target of 591 runs for an outright win in the finalinnings, Hyderabad had a mountain to climb. They lost an early wicketof Nandakishore (9) when the score was just ten. VVS Laxman and DanielManohar added 188 runs for the second wicket, as Mumbai struggled tomake a breakthrough. Laxman (111) was looking good for yet anothermassive score, but fell to the guiles of the left-arm spinner Pawar.His innings was decorated with two sixes and 13 boundaries off 192balls. Four overs later, Pawar bowled Manohar (71). He had struck 11boundaries in his patient knock.The young Mumbai spinner Pawar, spun a web with his left-arm orthodoxspin to pick up 7/103 to take his match tally to ten wickets. Agarkarbowled well to finish with three wickets giving away 46 runs.Hyderabad were bowled out for 293 runs in 98.2 overs. Mumbaicelebrated their 34th Ranji Trophy victory, adding one more triumph totheir glorious history.

ScorecardAn unbeaten century from Lions’ opener Stephen Cook helped his side defeat Dolphins by 89 runs at the Wanderers. After Cook’s innings led them to 246 in the shortened 37-overs-a-side game, Dolphins, after a decent start, lost six wickets for 29 runs to be bowled out for 157. Spinner Aaron Phangiso, who had a memorable Champions League T20, bowled an effective spell of 3 for 37 in eight overs.After a delayed start to the match, Cook and fellow opener Gulam Bodi started positively, scoring 80 runs in 13.2 overs to lay the base for a strong total. The middle-order batsmen provided fruitful support to Cook, and at the death, Cook and Jean Symes scored 41 runs in 21 deliveries to reach the total at a run rate of 6.64 runs per over. Twenty-nine wides bowled by Dolphins bowlers helped their cause.Dolphins lost opener Cameron Delport early in their chase, in the second over, but his partner Jonathan Vandiar scored 49 off 51 deliveries to keep them in the hunt. However, at 128 for 4, middle-order batsman Cody Chetty was stumped off Phangiso, and his dismissal led to a collapse. The lower order didn’t put up any resistance as Dolphins were bowled out in the 32nd over.Lions stay at the top of the table after the win.
ScorecardIn Centurion, another century by an opener, by wicketkeeper Heino Kuhn, led to Titans’ 81-run victory against Knights. Chasing 286, Knights slipped from 92 for 1 to 168 for 8, largely through bowlers Henry Davids and Roelof van der Merwe, who ended up claiming nine wickets together as Knights were bowled out for 204.After being put in to bat, Titans lost opener Davids in the fifth over, but a 127-run stand between Kuhn and No. 3 Mangaliso Mosehle shaped their side’s innings strongly. After the partnership was broken, Kuhn put on 121 runs with captain Martin van Jaarsveld, and at 258 for 2 in the 43rd over, had the base for a solid acceleration towards the end of the innings. They lost eight wickets for 27 runs to end at 285 for 9.Knights lost an early wicket in the chase, that of Ryan Bailey in the fourth over. But opener Reeza Hendricks, who scored a half-century, and Rilee Rossouw added 74 runs quickly to set their team on track. Once Rossouw got out, however, wickets started falling quickly as other than Johan van der Wath, none of the other batsmen put up a fight. The innings ended by the 37th over, as van der Wath ran out of partners. Spinner van der Merwe, who took the final wicket, achieved impressive figures of 5 for 26 in 8.3 overs.Kuhn was adjudged the Man of the Match for his century. Titans are second in the table now.