Eastern Cape vs Capitals, 17th Match at Gqeberha, SA20, Jan 22 2025 - Ball by Ball Commentary

Cleaned him up! Pace on delivery attacking the stumps, moves away from the wicket and tries to slice it square of the wicket, failed to connect and breaks the stumps, the bails are flying!

Hard length ball played with soft hands to deep mid wicket, sets off for a couple

Hard line and length outside off, throws his bat at it and failed to connect

Back of a length ball darted on the stumps, Muthusamy decides to whip it towards the on-side, finds the leading edge and hits it straight to the deep backward square leg fielder, no mistake from Crawley there

A tad fuller around off, driven square of the wicket, misfield at backward point allows the batters to rotate the strike

Lovely piece of timing! Short pitched ball, sliding down the leg-side, whips it away using the pace of the ball, middles the ball and sends it through the gap past short fine leg, beats the sweeper fielder for a boundary

Banged in short pitched ball with extra bounce off the pitch, cramped for space, turns it down with the outside edge of the bat to backward point

Hard length ball around the fifth stump line, whisked down to fine of third man region

Length ball wide outside off, 128 clicks, beats the outside edge of the bat

Flatter length targeting the leg stump, goes deep inside the crease, hoicks it through square leg and finds the boundary ropes

Full and overpitched on the pads from around the wicket, shovels it away to mid-on

Half-tracker length ball driven across the line with the inside part of the bat to mid-on

Half-volley wide outside off, driven through the covers off the front foot past the extra cover fielder, hits it wide of deep extra cover and completes the double

Length ball on the stumps, driven softly straight back to the bowler

Hard line and length wide around off, smacks it back to the bowler with the toe end of the bat

Flatter length ball on the pads, forced it away through deep backward square leg region for a single to end the over

Tighter line and length ball defends off the front foot

Tossed up ball on the stumps, moves forward and negates it to the on-side, failed to connect and hits the front pad

Good length on middle-leg, taps it to mid wicket

Flighted length ball inviting the batter to come forward, turning away, dances down the track and misses the line of the ball, Stubbs does the rest behind the stumps, Harmer is pumped up!