Champions of the World! Assupol Tuks show huge character to win Red Bull Campus Cricket World finals in London! Congratulations must go to Head Coach Pierre de Bruyn Local resident, Director of Cricket and head coach of Assupol Tuks Pierre de Bruyn left SA on 17th July 2014 with one goal in mind, to return back with the Redbull T20 Campus Cricket World Cup. Assupol Tuks qualified to represent South Africa after beating Maties 3-0 in a Regional Redbull T20 series earlier in April this year. On Saturday evening 26th July 2014 de Bruyn’s Assupol Tuks players lifted the Redbull T20 Campus Cricket World Cup at The Oval in London after beating Jamaica University of West Indies. “We planned for everything and we proved ourselves to everyone. I’m proud of the success and the culture of this team, and nobody can take that away from this side,” coach Pierre de Bruyn said after the final. Two players who were an integral part of the de Bruyn’s victorious team are also residents namely Ruben Claassen and Aiden Markram. Claassen is a unique off spin bowler, standing 2m tall his bounce, spin and accuracy plays havoc with the batsmen. Although Markram does bowl a bit of off spin his strength is in his batting where he opens. During the last year 170 universities from 8 countries all tried to qualify regionally so as to represent their country. The following teams succeeded - Leeds Bradford MCC (UK), University of New South Wales (Australia), University of Liberal Arts (Bangladesh), Rizvi College (India), Karachi University (Pakistan), Assupol Tuks (South Africa), International College of Business and Technology (Sri Lanka) and Jamaica (West Indies). The tournament was hosted this year in the UK during the week of 21- 26 July. The pool games were played at 2 venues, namely Wormsley and Aston Rowton Cricket grounds with the semi-finals and final being played at The Oval. SA (Tuks) Road to Final Pool Game 1: SA vs Bangladesh (won by 114 runs) - Claassen 4-0-22-2. Markram 22 runs & 3-1-5-0 Pool Game 2: SA vs England (won by 7wkts) – Claassen 4-0-13-2. Markram 42 runs & 2-0-9-0 Pool Game 3: SA vs West Indies (won by 56 runs) – Claassen 4-0-34-2. Markram, Man of the Match. 76runs & 3-0-12-3 Semi Finals: SA vs India (won by 5 wkts) Claassen 4-1-10-2. Markram 1 run & 2-0-12-0 Final: SA vs West Indies (won by 40 runs) Claassen 4-0-10-1. Markram 33 runs & 2-0-12-1 Claassen and Markram also excelled in the tournament statistics. Claassen finished the tournament as the second leading wicket taker in 5 matches behind SA U19 World Cup bowler Corbin Bosch who took 12 wickets. Claassen bowled 20 overs in total, had 89 runs conceded and took 9 wickets. Markram ended second highest runs scorer behind fellow team mate and Titans player Theunis de Bruyn who was the leading run scorer (209 runs). Markram in 5 games scored 174 runs at an average of 34. Markram also had bowling figures for the 5 matches bowling 12 overs, had 50 runs conceded and took 4 wickets. Well done to Pierre, Ruben and Aiden - you can be very proud. Not often one can say that a cricket player in Markram has won 2 World Cups in one year (U19 and Redbull T20)…keep the Tuks and Centurion flag flying high gents and good luck for the upcoming season.
Posted on: Tue, 05 Aug 2014 13:09:26 +0000
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