{"id":644861,"date":"2026-05-02T12:10:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T12:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/644861\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T12:10:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T12:10:11","slug":"roderick-leads-sa-county-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/644861\/","title":{"rendered":"Roderick leads SA county charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gareth Roderick produced the standout South African performance on day one of round five of the County Championship, scoring an unbeaten 164.<\/p>\n<p>Gareth Roderick produced the standout South African performance on day one of round five of the County Championship, scoring an unbeaten 164 for Worcestershire against Northamptonshire.<\/p>\n<p>Roderick held Worcestershire\u2019s innings together as they recovered to post 306 all out at Northampton. Fellow South African Beyers Swanepoel added 17, while Northants closed on 40-0 at stumps, still 266 runs behind. Ricardo Vasconcelos was unbeaten on 22, while Calvin Harrison had earlier taken 2-59.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">South Africans @ Day 1 of R5 of the County Championship<\/p>\n<p>Gareth Roderick 164*<br \/>Chris Benjamin 56<br \/>Ricardo Vasconcelos 22*<br \/>Beyers Swanepoel 17<br \/>Leus du Plooy 4<br \/>Calvin Harrison 2\/59<br \/>Keith Dudgeon 13 &amp; 0\/12<br \/>Migael Pretorius 1\/21<br \/>Kyle Abbott 1\/64<br \/>Codi Yusuf 0\/59<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 SA Cricket Podcast (@sacricketpod) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sacricketpod\/status\/2050300417641247111?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">May 1, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africapicks.com\/news\/chennai-super-kings-vs-mumbai-indians-ipl-preview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">AFRICA PICKS: Chennai Super Kings vs Mumbai Indians \u2013 IPL preview<\/a><\/p>\n<p>At Canterbury, Chris Benjamin made 56 for Kent against Derbyshire, helping the hosts reach 352. Keith Dudgeon contributed 13 before Derbyshire ended the day on 24-0, with Dudgeon returning 0-12 from his opening spell.<\/p>\n<p>Leus du Plooy made four for Middlesex, who closed on 272-6 against Durham at Lord\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>In Division One, Migael Pretorius took 1-21 for Somerset as Yorkshire were bowled out for 162 at Taunton. Somerset ended day one strongly on 201-3.<\/p>\n<p>At Southampton, Kyle Abbott took 1-64 and Codi Yusuf finished with 0-59 for Hampshire, but Glamorgan dominated the day to close on 353-1.<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Shaun Botterill\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gareth Roderick produced the standout South African performance on day one of round five of the County Championship,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-644861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}