WEST COAST ROLLERS

It’s been a tough old season for the West Coast Rollers, but there is some light at the end of the tunnel after a 36-run victory against Claremont Gents on Sunday.

The West Coast Rollers’ season of hell took a turn for the worse on Sunday with a first - and massive - defeat at the hands of the Craig Matthews Band.

It’s been something of a stinker of a season for the West Coast Rollers, with the Black Batts inflicting a third consecutive loss on Sunday. The game was played at the Gary Kirsten Oval, but it could well have been in Kolkata on Day 5 such was the searing heat and mad spin on offer. That said, both sides had to bat on it, and one just did a much better job of it than the other. The Rollers took first strike and actually got off to a very decent start, with Rohan van der Mesch

If the West Coast Rollers had ‘catch better’ and ‘win more games’ on their New Year’s resolutions list, it didn’t take very long to break it.

After last week’s cakewalk in Rondebosch, the West Coast Rollers were brought back down to earth with a shuddering ‘thump’ at Distell on Saturday.

The West Coast Rollers made a near perfect start to the new season on Sunday, beating the Pumas by 129 runs at the Rondebosch Cricket Club.