MSL CRICKET
Hendricks turns on the Heat and cuts the Giants down
How was your weekend? Not bad‚ we hope‚ if you are most people. But if you are Reeza Hendricks … Opening the batting for the Jozi Stars in the Mzansi Super League (MSL)‚ Hendricks smashed 104 against the Durban Heat at the Wanderers on Friday evening and 108 against the Nelson Mandela Bay Giants at St George’s Park on Sunday afternoon‚ without being dismissed. He scored those 212 runs off 113 balls‚ hammering only four fewer runs in sixes than he did in fours. All told‚ 69.81% of Hendricks’s heap was in boundaries. Nine bowlers who have 430 international caps in the white-ball formats were spread among the attacks he‚ well‚ attacked. Hendricks belongs to the classy ranks of cricketers who do not talk themselves up. “It was my day to get the accolade, but it was a good batting performance‚” he said after Friday’s game — so it was left to opposition captain Jon-Jon Smuts to sing his praises on Sunday. “Reeza batted out of his socks‚” Smuts said. “If you have a look at the whole scorec...
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