The highest score made to date in county cricket this season belongs to one of the 38 South Africans wintering in England.That effort is Colin Ackerman’s 186 for Leicestershire against Sussex in the round of second division matches that ended on Monday.David Wiese’s 106 for Sussex‚ which he smacked off 105 balls against Warwickshire in the previous round‚ is also among the eight centuries scored. Marchant de Lange’s 5/62 for Glamorgan against Gloucestershire is one of eight five-wicket hauls taken in the second division. He scored 50 not out in the same game and took 8/160 in the match.Derbyshire’s Hardus Viljoen hit an unbeaten 60 runs — 44 in fours and sixes — off 71 balls against Middlesex at the weekend. He claimed four wickets in the match.No South African players feature among the four centurions in the first division‚ but Simon Harmer’s 5/46 for Essex against Lancashire is one of seven five-wicket hauls.AB de Villiers’s 35-ball 90 not out for Royal Challengers Bangalore again...
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