{"id":150876,"date":"2019-11-15T04:01:12","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T02:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/durban-heat-keen-to-get-their-msl-campaign-off-the-ground-featured-durban-blog\/"},"modified":"2019-11-15T04:01:12","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T02:01:12","slug":"durban-heat-keen-to-get-their-msl-campaign-off-the-ground-featured-durban-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/durban-heat-keen-to-get-their-msl-campaign-off-the-ground-featured-durban-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Durban Heat keen to get their MSL campaign off the ground \u2013 Featured Durban Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/dolphinscricket.co.za\/durban-heat-keen-to-get-their-msl-campaign-off-the-ground\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Durban Heat keen to get their MSL campaign off the ground<\/a>: <\/p>\n<p><a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.safarinow.com\/destinations\/durban\/?source=8201\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Durban<\/a> \u2013 Following a week of torrential rain in <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.safarinow.com\/destinations\/durban\/?source=8201\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Durban<\/a>, the <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.safarinow.com\/destinations\/durban\/?source=8201\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Durban<\/a> Heat players will be hoping that the weather gods smile kindly on them so they can get their Mzansi Super League campaign underway when they meet the Paarl Rocks at Hollywoodbets Kingsmead Stadium on Friday evening.<\/p>\n<p>The Heat\u2019s opening game of the competition was rained off without a ball being bowled so the side will be itching to get into action as soon as possible. Despite the adverse weather coach Gary Kirsten sees the positive in the lack of match time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOften when you come into tournaments like this you don\u2019t really have too much time to connect as a unit,\u201d Kirsten said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we have used our ten or twelve days that we have had together productively and obviously we would love to have had some game time but we can\u2019t fight that we just want to make best use of the time we have.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Heat side is sweating slightly on their two young speedsters with Daryn Dupavillon and Marco Jansen both under a slight injury cloud.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDaryn was bowling at about seventy percent on Tuesday which is a good sign but Marco is also not fully fit at the moment. Those two guys will be important components to our attack in the various conditions that we will play in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately we don\u2019t have confirmation yet as to their availability for the match against the Paarl Rocks on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously it would be great to have a fully fit squad so we can pick the team that we want to,\u201d Kirsten added.<\/p>\n<p>Coming in to the weekend the Heat has two points in the bag, however the players will be keen to get on the park and show the fans what they are capable of with another match on Sunday against the Cape Town Blitz on the cards.<\/p>\n<p>Captain Dane Vilas understands that it\u2019s far from ideal losing games but the competition is a long one and there are more than enough games left in the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s only the first week really so you can\u2019t get too frustrated and look too far ahead,\u201d Vilas said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a lot of cricket to be played and we just want to get on the park this Friday and get off to a good start.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe guys are all equally keen but are also prepared for anything that might crop up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Durban Heat take on the Paarl Rocks in its second match of the Mzansi Super League at Hollywoodbets Kingsmead Stadium starting at 17:30. Gates to the stadium open at 16:30 and tickets can be purchased at the stadium ticket office.<\/p>\n<p>Durban Heat Squad:<br \/> Andile Phehlukwayo, Alex Hales, David Miller (retained player), Dane Vilas, Ravi Bopara, Keshav Maharaj (retained player), Kyle Abbott (retained player), Khaya Zondo (retained player), Marco Jansen, Daryn Dupavillon, Sarel Erwee (retained player), Malusi Siboto, Prenelan Subrayen, Wihan Lubbe, Shaun von Berg, Wesley Marshall.<\/p>\n<p>DURBAN HEAT FIXTURES<\/p>\n<p>Friday, November 15: 17h30, Durban Heat v Paarl Rocks, Hollywoodbets Kingsmead Stadium<br \/> Sunday, November 17: 10h00, Durban Heat v Cape Town Blitz, Hollywoodbets Kingsmead Stadium<br \/> Thursday, November 21: 17h30, Tshwane Spartans v Durban Heat, SuperSport Park<br \/> Saturday, November 23: 12h30, Nelson Mandela Bay Giants v Durban Heat, St. George\u2019s Park<br \/> Thursday, November 28: 17h30, Cape Town Blitz v Durban Heat, Newlands<br \/> Saturday, November 30: 12h30, Durban Heat v Nelson Mandela Bay Giants, Hollywoodbets Kingsmead Stadium<br \/> Wednesday, December 4: 17h30, Paarl Rocks v Durban Heat, Eurolux Boland Park<br \/> Saturday, December 7: 12h30, Jozi Stars v Durban Heat, Imperial Wanderers Stadium<br \/> Tuesday, December 10: 17h30, Durban Heat v Jozi Stars, Hollywoodbets Kingsmead Stadium<\/p>\n<p>Friday, December 13: 17h30, Play-off, 2nd v 3rd<br \/> (reserve day if required on Saturday, December 14, 12h30)<br \/> Monday, December 16: 17h30, Final<br \/> (reserve day if required on Tuesday, December 17, 17h30)<\/p>\n<p>The post <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/dolphinscricket.co.za\/durban-heat-keen-to-get-their-msl-campaign-off-the-ground\/\">Durban Heat keen to get their MSL campaign off the ground<\/a> appeared first on <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/dolphinscricket.co.za\">Hollywoodbets Dolphins<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fill in the form below to have your blog featured on MyDurban \u2013 we will post a snippet and title link to your new blog posts.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Submit and get free press releases here:<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/mypr.co.za\/submit\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MyPR Free Press Release<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/mydurban.co.za\/meet-some-of-our-durban-bloggers\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Meet the Durban Bloggers<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Durban Heat keen to get their MSL campaign off the ground: Durban \u2013 Following a week of torrential rain in Durban, the Durban Heat players will be hoping that the weather gods smile kindly on them so they can get their Mzansi Super League campaign underway when they meet the Paarl Rocks at Hollywoodbets Kingsmead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[8275,3335,953],"class_list":{"0":"post-150876","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-durban","7":"tag-durban","8":"tag-mydurban-co-za","9":"tag-newspaper","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}