da gbg bet： The Standard Bank PRO20 Series started its second season at GoodyearPark, Bloemfontein on Wednesday evening with the title holders, the Eagles, convincingly beating the Dolphins by 70 runs
Keith Lane31-Mar-2005Eagles 171 for 7 (Jacobs 44, Beukes 36,van Wyk 35, Khan 2-15,AM Amla 2-30) beat Dolphins 101 for 9 (van der Wath 2-16,Tshabalala 2-18, Deacon 2-20) by 70 runsThe Standard Bank PRO20 Series started its second season at GoodyearPark, Bloemfontein on Wednesday evening with the title holders, theEagles, convincingly beating the Dolphins by 70 runs.Winning the toss and sending the Eagles in to bat, the Dolphins spilled afew chances as Morne van Wyk (35) and Jonathan Beukes (36) made a solidstart putting on 67 in the first eight overs as they laid the foundationto the innings.It was an ideal position to come to the crease as Davey Jacobs scored 44 off 32 balls giving the innings the required impetus while the remainingbatsmen smashed away at better than a run a ball. In the end 14boundaries and four sixes helped the Eagles to 171 for 7 in their 20overs.The surprise for the Dolphins was the two wickets picked up by part-timelegbreak bowler Ahmed Amla to join Imraan Khan as the main wicket-taker.The Dolphins innings never got off the ground with wickets falling atregular intervals as Johan van der Wath and Cliff Deacon (taking twowickets apiece) kept the batsmen under pressure. Two further run-outsand two wickets in four balls to Man-of-the-Match Thandi Tshabalala hadthe heart of the batting ripped out of the Dolphins as they collapsed to101 for 9 when the overs ran out. The Dolphins had only struck sixboundaries with Shaun Pollock top scoring with 18.