f28488	Border v Orange Free State
	Currie Cup 1970/71 (Section B)
Venue	Jan Smuts Ground, East London on 18th, 19th, 21st December 1970 (3-day match)
Balls per over	6
Toss	Border won the toss and decided to bat
Result	Border won by 6 wickets
Points	Border 8; Orange Free State 0
Umpires	OR Schoof, WW Wade
Close of play day 1	Border (1) 301/7 (Pope 110*, Harper 31*)
Close of play day 2

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Border first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
AP Haxton	c Blair b Melis	91		161	13	-
IH McClenaghan	c Strydom b Jones	9
WA Steele	c Graves b Gardiner	4
CP Wilkins	c Graves b Gardiner	8
NO Knight	c Jones b Gardiner	13
*GA Minkley	c Evans b Melis	4
+CWS Pope	c Strydom b le Roux	150		194	26	-
KR Skelding	lbw b Rosendorff	24
ML Harper	not out	64
RV Taylor	c Blair b le Roux	15
JL Fetting	did not bat
Extras	(16 b, 7 lb, 1 w)	24
Total	(9 wickets, declared, 107.3 overs)	406
Fall of wickets:
1-28 (McClenaghan), 2-46 (Steele), 3-64 (Wilkins), 4-118 (Knight), 5-127 (Minkley), 6-146 (Haxton), 7-234 (Skelding), 8-362 (Pope), 9-406 (Taylor, 107.3 ov)

Orange Free State bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Jones	11	1	54	1	-	-
Hobson	15	2	64	0	-	-
Gardiner	24	3	71	3	-	-
Melis	20	6	58	2	-	-
le Roux	17.3	2	79	2	-	-
Rosendorff	14	7	33	1	-	-
Graves	6	1	23	0	-	-

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Orange Free State first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
AR Evans	c Pope b Taylor	21
PA Strydom	c Harper b Taylor	39
*PJ Graves	c Pope b Taylor	0
N Rosendorff	c Pope b Wilkins	1
+PM Thompson	c Wilkins b Harper	31
RA le Roux	c Fetting b Harper	7
JH Blair	c Pope b Harper	14
MG Jones	not out	49
SJ Gardiner	b Harper	8
PH Hobson	c Fetting b Harper	5
TA Melis	run out	0
Extras	(3 b, 5 lb, 10 nb)	18
Total	(all out, 62.3 overs)	193
Fall of wickets:
1-61, 2-61, 3-62, 4-75, 5-109, 6-118, 7-173, 8-183, 9-193, 10-193 (62.3 ov)

Border bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Wilkins	16	2	35	1	-	-
Taylor	20	4	59	3	-	-
Harper	15.3	5	35	5	-	-
Fetting	7	3	23	0	-	-
Knight	1	0	6	0	-	-
Steele	3	0	17	0	-	-

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Orange Free State second innings (following on)		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
AR Evans	c Steele b Wilkins	8
PA Strydom	b Harper	70
*PJ Graves	c Pope b Steele	50
N Rosendorff	b Steele	0
+PM Thompson	lbw b Harper	3
RA le Roux	c Haxton b Harper	52
JH Blair	c Steele b Harper	17
MG Jones	c Skelding b Harper	4
SJ Gardiner	c and b Harper	28
PH Hobson	c Harper b Steele	25
TA Melis	not out	0
Extras	(5 b, 2 lb, 3 nb)	10
Total	(all out, 103.2 overs)	267
Fall of wickets:
1-12, 2-127, 3-133, 4-136, 5-136, 6-166, 7-176, 8-220, 9-260, 10-267 (103.2 ov)

Border bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Wilkins	16	5	37	1	-	-
Taylor	17	2	59	0	-	-
Harper	39	8	73	6	-	-
Fetting	3	0	7	0	-	-
Knight	5	1	16	0	-	-
Steele	23.2	4	65	3	-	-

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Border second innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
AP Haxton	run out	6
IH McClenaghan	c Thompson b Gardiner	0
WA Steele	b Gardiner	2
CP Wilkins	c Jones b Graves	16
+CWS Pope	not out	29
NO Knight	not out	0
*GA Minkley	did not bat
KR Skelding	did not bat
ML Harper	did not bat
RV Taylor	did not bat
JL Fetting	did not bat
Extras	(2 lb)	2
Total	(4 wickets, 14 overs)	55
Fall of wickets:
1-3 (McClenaghan), 2-5 (Steele), 3-8 (Haxton), 4-51 (Wilkins)

Orange Free State bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Gardiner	6	2	25	2	-	-
Melis	6	4	14	0	-	-
le Roux	1	0	4	0	-	-
Graves	1	0	10	1	-	-

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Notes
--> KR Skelding made his debut in First-Class matches
--> PH Hobson made his debut in First-Class matches
--> TA Melis made his debut in First-Class matches
--> PH Hobson made his last appearance in First-Class matches
--> AP Haxton (1) passed his previous highest score of 89 in First-Class matches
--> CWS Pope (1) passed his previous highest score of 75 in First-Class matches
--> CWS Pope (1) made his first century in First-Class matches
--> PM Thompson (1) passed his previous highest score of 18 in First-Class matches
--> MG Jones (1) passed his previous highest score of 28 in First-Class matches
--> PA Strydom (2) passed 1000 runs in First-Class matches when he reached 18
--> RA le Roux (2) passed 500 runs in First-Class matches when he reached 19
--> ML Harper achieved his best innings bowling analysis in First-Class matches in the Orange Free State first innings (previous best was 3-48)
--> ML Harper achieved his first five wickets in an innings in First-Class matches in the Orange Free State first innings
--> WA Steele achieved his best innings bowling analysis in First-Class matches in the Orange Free State second innings (previous best was 3-136)
--> ML Harper achieved his best innings bowling analysis in First-Class matches in the Orange Free State second innings (previous best was 5-35)

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