da realbet： Eastern Province fought back gamely on the second day of the Super Sixmatch
Peter le Grange17-Feb-2002Eastern Province fought back gamely on the second day of the Super Sixmatch. Although the home team scored freely in the morning session, thevisitors’ top order held out long enough to give their team a good chance ofavoiding the follow-on.Kirsten continued to dominate in the morning session, going on to equal hisbest score in domestic cricket before falling to Hayward in much the sameway as Gibbs earlier. He received good support from Munnik and Dawsonbefore Harris bashed a few quick runs at the end. Only Duminy failed to getgoing, looking tentative after a promising start on the first evening. Kempbowled with some fire, while Hayward’s support in the slips was embarrassingas several chances went down in the latter stages of the innings. Homaninevertheless performed well to snare 5 catches on debut.Benfield hit 5 fours before falling to Munnik, while Bryant batted fluently.The right-hander must feel this field belongs to him, as he had scoredcenturies in each of his last 3 visits to the Newlands crease. He lostBradfield immediately after the skipper had completed his 50 in 201 minutes(166 balls), and was unfortunate to be run out after a misunderstanding withCallaghan with just 4 overs to be completed. Nightwatchman Homani followedup his competent keeping with a brief but aggressive innings, apparantlymisunderstanding his role.