The Titans, after being sent in to bat, made 187 for six, in the T20Challenge final against the Highveld Lions at the Wanderers on Sunday.
The Titans kept a good scoring rate throughout their innings, after a solid opening partnership and some decent contributions down the order. Top scorer Farhaan Behardien helped finish off the innings with his score of 42 runs off 26 balls.
After a brisk opening partnership between Henry Davids (27) and Heino Kuhn (14) of 43 off 23 balls, the Titans soon found themselves at 47 for two.
Roelof van der Merwe (7), came in at number three, and survived a huge appeal when he was on two, from Chris Morris as the ball seemed to take a deflection off the bat or glove, but was not given out by the umpire.
Van der Merwe, however, did not last much longer, contributing seven runs before he was out, caught at deep mid wicket by Jean Symes off the bowling of Morris.
Faf du Plessis, (22) after being dropped the previous ball with a sharp caught and bowled chance bowled by Dwaine Pretorius, was caught by Chris Morris at deep mid wicket the next delivery.
The star of the Lions bowling attack was Aaron Phangiso. He went for 14 in his four overs picking up the wickets of Van der Merwe and a well-set Martin Van Jaarsveld (32). In his allotted overs the slow-left armer did not concede a boundary.
The wicket of Van Jaarsveld brought together Behardien and Albie Morkel (21). Both players quickly found their timing and began dispatching the Lions' attack to all parts of the ground. They combined for a 42 run partnership off 27 balls.
Towards the end of the innings it was Behardien with David Wiese (14) who each crossed the boundaries with ease to get to the imposing 187 total. – Sapa