Oh my word,so close yet so far! Dawson shimmies across his stumps and tries to scoop it to fine leg but can't connect and Pretoria Capitals manage to defend this paltry score. What an amusing and engrossing low-scoring cliffhanger that had everything.
Capitals vs Eastern Cape, 18th Match at Centurion, SA20, Jan 25 2024 - Match Result
Phew, let me catch my breath, what an exhilarating match it turned out to be! Who would have thought Pretoria Capitals would defend 125 against a team that was on a winning spree? Both teams delivered stellar bowling performances, making life onerous for the batters. With this win, Pretoria add two more points to the board and move to No. 5, while Sunrisers remain in third place with 15 points. It's been a rollercoaster ride, indeed. SEC's top order misfired, and then Stubbs and Kruger forged a partnership to get the chase back on track but, Capitals kept picking wickets at regular intervals and put up a lionhearted effort, making the equation taxing. Parnell shed three wickets, Rashid got vital three scalps in the middle overs, and Dupavillon was breathing fire in his spells - he bowled a terrific last over and held his nerve in crucial moments. Bosch only conceded 11 runs and picked up a wicket too. All in all, a terrific, well-knit bowling performance gets them over the line by the barest of margins. Thanks for joining us. It's goodnight from me, Rvel Zahid, and our scorer for this game, Ranjith
Eathan Bosch, Player of the Match: Pretty unexpected (to win POTM) but I'm happy I could contribute to team's win, to put my hand up tonight and contribute feels pretty special. We're playing against some of the best in the world, guys put up a really really good fight and hope we can carry the momentum...Dupi held his nerve. You have to win in order to get to the playoffs, looking forward to the game on Saturday and keep moving
Rams a yorker right into the blockhole, Yorker as Waquaresque, can't do much about it, did well to shield his stumps! Will there be a super over?
Pounces on the length ball wide of off and flogs him for a six over deep point, right off the middle and what a timely six to change the complexion of the game. Too full and plenty of width to work with, he couldn't have timed the shot any better. Sensational stuff, cool and calm when it matters the most
10 from 3
gets down low to it and eases it with the angled face to third man
terrific slow short ball on middle that rises steeply off the deck, gets squared up and can't get off strike
Tantalizingly close to hitting the stumps as he backs away and plays a nothing shot in the end, back of a length ball on middle and he exposes his stumps, fiddles with it in the end
Couldn't have finished the over any better! HE HAS BATTERED THAT OVER deep midwicket and cleared the ropes. Once again Parnell misses his target, that's a juicy half-volley and he strokes it splendidly over midwicket, it's a lovely one-handed crowd catch too and the entire crowd has erupted, what a catch, it's all happening out there!
big delivery coming up, SEC need a 6
Mean short ball slammed into the deck and it hits him on the helmet I reckon, it's off the top edge and then ricochets to the helmet, concussion protocol will follow but he looks okay
A brilliant bottom-hand shovel over midwicket into the grass banks, hold on, don't leave your seats too early. This game is still alive with Dawson still out there. That was slugged out of the meat! Length on middle, too full in his hitting arc and goes out of the park
Short of a length on leg, jams his bat down just in the nick of time and inside edge skews away behind square on the leg side
Caught behind! oh, this match has more twists than a mystery novel! what drama! Wide yorker again and he gets a thick edge through to Salt who makes no mistake. That's third wicket for Parnell who has bowled smartly using all of his bag of tricks today
carved away through backward point with precision of a surgeon performing surgery, deep in crease and pushes this wide yorker away from the fielder
Makes room to cut and gets the desired result, edges it to deep third area and plays it very fine! That will help!
floats it up in the air and lands it on a length on middle, worked off the pads square of midwicket
gets a decent chunk of it but only goes as far as deep midwicket as they amble across for a run
tossed up on middle and leg on a flatter trajectory, tries to go big over midwicket but is beaten comprehensively bu the quickness and bounce
carved away into the covers
tossed up on leg, helped around the corner
floated up just outside off, drags it across the line straight into the hands of deep midwicket, what a comeback after being slammed for a six!
tossed up fuller on off, pushed to cover
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SuperSport Park, Centurion | |
Toss | Sunrisers Eastern Cape, elected to field first |
Series | |
Season | 2023/24 |
Player Of The Match | |
Match days | 25 January 2024 - daynight (20-over match) |
Umpires | Arno JacobsDRS Mazizi GampuDRS |
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Reserve Umpire | |
Match Referee | |
Points | Pretoria Capitals 4, Sunrisers Eastern Cape 0 |
Over 20 • SEC 122/9
Capitals won by 3 runs