da cassino online： Ashwell Prince and skipper HD Ackerman both struck centuries as they carriedWestern Province to a position of dominance with a superb partnership of227 for the fourth wicket at Supersport Park on Saturday, setting Northernsto make the highest
Grant Shimmin17-Mar-2001Ashwell Prince and skipper HD Ackerman both struck centuries as they carriedWestern Province to a position of dominance with a superb partnership of227 for the fourth wicket at Supersport Park on Saturday, setting Northernsto make the highest score of the match, 364, for victory, assuming Provincedeclare on Sunday morning.The pair came together at 87 for three and were never separated as thevisitors totalled 314 for three before bad light ended play nine oversearly, Prince finishing on 120 and Ackerman on 109 in a perfectdress-rehearsal for next week’s home final against Border.The pace of the innings seemed slow at times, but that was not a truereflection. Eighty-seven were made in the first session, 105 in the secondand 122 in the third. What made it seem that the game might be drifting alittle was that the batsmen were scoring the bulk of the runs in boundaries.Both centurions struck 17 fours in going to their tons and both got to threefigures from 44 scoring shots, although Prince was significantly quicker,taking 159 balls to Ackerman’s 260.Both individual innings’ were timely ones, with the South Africa A side totour India later in the year set to be announced in the next week. Prince,who made his first half-century (79) of the season in the first innings, hasplayed in that side before and must surely have clinched his place againwith his fifth first class century.Ackerman, who has had a brief flirtation with Test cricket, playing fourmatches in the 1997-8 campaign, has been widely touted as captain of thatside, with KwaZulu-Natal’s Dale Benkenstein surely having missed the Testboat, and a 16th first-class ton, in which he battled through from anuncertain start, will have done his chances no harm.In the match context, a declaration with some 10 overs left in the day wouldhave been logical, but with the light fading, it was likely Northerns wouldhave successfully appealed against the light early on, so Province battedon, clearly hoping to give themselves more runs to play with on Sunday.