Rondebosch Cricket Club’s Michael Pote has been named Club Cricket SA Player of the Week, on the back of a sterling performance against Durbanville Cricket Club.
Pote struck a solid 65 in the first innings – and commanding 148 not out in the second – as last season’s Western Province Cricket Association premier league runners-up clinched a vital seven-wicket victory over the 2014-15 champions.
The talented left-hander’s century was particularly important after the relatively early fall of fellow opener Sean Hendrieck and the experienced Grant Edmeades, which paved the way for a restorative 170-run partnership alongside half-centurion James Burke.
Pote’s 148 not out featured 18 fours and two sixes – and spanned a mere 143 deliveries.
Club Cricket SA Player of the Week archives:
7 February 2017: Warren Ekstraal (St Augustine Cricket Club)
30 January 2017: Zac Elkin (Green Point Cricket Club)
23 January 2017: Byron Boshoff (Durbanville Cricket Club)
16 January 2017: Sameer Sandhi (Wynberg Cricket Club)
9 January 2017: Handre Theron (Bellville Cricket Club)
5 December 2016: Nicholas Scott (Cape Town Cricket Club)
28 November 2016: Virgil Jacobs (Strandfontein Cricket Club)
21 November 2016: Sheraz Ali (Wynberg Cricket Club)
14 November 2016: Michael Cohen (Western Province Cricket Club)
7 November 2016: Gary-Jon Sylvester (Helderberg Cricket Club)
31 October 2016: Aidan Greenfield (Milnerton Cricket Club)
24 October 2016: Nathan Swartz (Durbanville Cricket Club)
17 October 2016: Marvin de Kock (Northerns Goodwood Cricket Club)
11 October 2016: James Crowson (Western Province Cricket Club)
7 March 2016: Julian Fortuin (Macassar Cricket Club)
29 February 2016: Derek Mitchell (Western Province Cricket Club)
24 February 2016: Abdul Temoor (Hottentots Holland Cricket Club)
15 February 2016: Muneer Holmes (Ottoman Cricket Club)
9 February 2016: Ashley Botha (Tygerberg Cricket Club)
2 February 2016: David Schierhout (Primrose Cricket Club)
25 January 2016: Dylan Solomon (Avendale Cricket Club)
18 January 2016: Zac Elkin (Green Point Cricket Club)
16 December 2015: Adam Ball (Claremont Cricket Club)
7 December 2015: Givon Christian (United Cricket Club)
29 November 2015: Jonathan Reynders (Milnerton Cricket Club)
24 November 2015: Roshan Khan (Cravenby Cricket Club)
18 November 2015: William Hantam (Cape Town Cricket Club)
9 November 2015: Anwar Rahman (Ottoman Cricket Club)
2 November 2015: Luke Petersen (Montrose Cricket Club)
26 October 2015: Zaid Patel (Wanderers Cricket Club)