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Like Aiden Markram in 2014, you can bet on Steve Stolk becoming a Protea after under-19 duty
There is only one small problem with the main cricket oval at the Old Eds sports club in Houghton if you are a 17-year-old called Steve Stolk. The boundary on the 3rd Street side of the ground is a little too close to the road. Sixes belted there tend to end up bouncing off the hot tarmac.
A few from Stolk have ended up in Third Street in the under-19 tri-nation series involving SA, India and Afghanistan. At least one of them did so on Monday during Stolk’s short, sharp and entertaining innings of 40 from just 21 balls against Afghanistan. It took him until the third over to let rip, perhaps the frustration of the loss to India on Saturday at the same ground firing his arms...
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