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Pretoria Capitals Dance To The St George’s Park Tunes

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The Pretoria Capitals laid down an early marker in the Betway SA20 with a commanding all-round opening performance against the Sunrisers Eastern Cape at St George’s Park in Gqeberha.

It was another evening of high-quality entertainment with the St George’s Park band keeping a capacity crowd dancing in the stands despite two lightning and rain interruptions.

The Capitals dominated with both and ball with the visitors posting 193/6 before restricting the Sunrisers to 170/5 for a 23-run victory.

Phil Salt was the outstanding Capitals’ batter with a stunning 47-ball 77 before all-rounders Jimmy Neesham (37 off 28 balls) and captain Wayne Parnell (29 not out off nine balls) delivered the finishing touches to the innings.

The match started in frenetic fashion in the opening Powerplay. In between the weather interruptions the Capitals smanaged 57 runs but for the loss of three wickets.

The scalps of Will Jacks (6), Rilee Rossouw (4) and Theunis de Bruyn (19) were all shared equally among the three pacemen Marco Jansen, Sisanda Magala and Ottniel Baartman.

The Capitals slipped further into trouble when Sunrisers captain Aiden Markram struck with successive deliveries to remove Senuran Muthusamy (13) and Shane Dadswell (0) to leave the visitors in a spot of trouble at 80/5.

Unfortunately for the Sunrisers they were unable to capitalise on their position as Salt and Neesham rebuilt the innings before Parnell’s cameo.

The home team were never able to build any form of momentum in the run chase as they lost wickets at regular intervals due to the sheer pace of Anrich Nortje (2/18).

Veteran Jon-Jon Smuts played a lone hand with 66 at the top of the order, while Tristan Stubbs threatened with 23 off 11 balls but his team needed much more from him on the night.

Tom Abell kept the fight alive with a battling 40 not and James Fuller’s undefeated 27, but the Capitals just had too much firepower on the night.

SA20 Standings

Standing Team Games Won Lost Tied N/R BP Net Run Rate Points
1 Pretoria Capitals 2 2 0 0 0 0 1.5 9
2 Paarl Royals 2 1 1 0 0 0 1.034 5
3 MI Cape Town 2 1 1 0 0 1 0.2 5
4 Durban Super Giants 2 1 1 0 0 0 0.4 4
5 Joburg Super Kings 2 1 1 0 0 0 -1.618 4
6 Sunrisers 2 0 2 0 0 0 -1.5 0

Running tally of the SA20 2023 Standings

SA20 Matches and Results

Date Home Away Venue Time Results
10 Jan MI Cape Town v Paarl Royals Newlands 17h30 MI Cape Town won by 8 Wickets
11 Jan Durban Super Giants v Joburg Super Kings Kingsmead 17h30 Joburg Super Kings win by 16 runs
12 Jan Sunrisers v Pretoria Capitals St Georges Park 17h30 Pretoria Capitals won by 23 runs
13 Jan Paarl Royals v Pretoria Capitals Boland Park 13h30 Paarl Royals win by 7 wickets
13 Jan MI Cape Town v Durban Super Giants Newlands 17h30 Durban’s Super Giants win by 5 wickets
14 Jan Pretoria Capitals v Sunrisers Centurion 13h30 Pretoria Capitals won by 37 runs
14 Jan MI Cape Town v Joburg Super Kings Newlands 17h30
15 Jan Durban Super Giants v Paarl Royals Kingsmead 13h30
16 Jan Sunrisers v MI Cape Town St Georges Park 17h30
17 Jan Paarl Royals v Durban Super Giants Boland Park 13h30
17 Jan Joburg Super Kings v Pretoria Capitals Wanderers 17h30
18 Jan MI Cape Town v Sunrisers Newlands 13h30
18 Jan Pretoria Capitals v Joburg Super Kings Centurion 17h30
19 Jan Paarl Royals v Sunrisers Boland Park 17h30
20 Jan Durban Super Giants v Pretoria Capitals Kingsmead 17h30
21 Jan Paarl Royals v MI Cape Town Boland Park 13h30
21 Jan Sunrisers v Joburg Super Kings St Georges Park 17h30
22 Jan Paarl Royals v Pretoria Capitals Boland Park 13h30
22 Jan Sunrisers v Durban Super Giants St Georges Park 17h30
23 Jan MI Cape Town v Pretoria Capitals Newlands 17h30
24 Jan Sunrisers v Paarl Royals St Georges Park 13h30
24 Jan Joburg Super Kings v Durban Super Giants Wanderers 17h30
2 Feb Durban Super Giants v MI Cape Town Kingsmead 17h30
3 Feb Joburg Super Kings v Paarl Royals Wanderers 13h30
3 Feb Durban Super Giants v Sunrisers Kingsmead 17h30
4 Feb Pretoria Capitals v MI Cape Town Centurion 17h30
5 Feb Joburg Super Kings v Sunrisers Wanderers 13h30
5 Feb Pretoria Capitals v Durban Super Giants Centurion 17h30
6 Feb Joburg Super kings v MI Cape Town Wanderers 17h30
7 Feb Pretoria Capitals v Paarl Royals Centurion 17h30
8 Feb SF1 v SF4 Wanderers 17h30
9 Feb SF2 v SF3 Centurion 17h30
11 Feb FINAL Wanderers 16h30

All the SA20 Matches and results for 2023.

CLICK HERE: https://mygqeberha.com/all-the-sa20-cricket-teams-and-sunrisers-matches/ for all the SA 20 Teams, Matches and Results.

The SA20 is South Africa’s explosive new T20 cricket league. Over 4 weeks and 33 matches, 6 global franchises and 102 world class players will go head to head.

The League features six privately-owned teams, who will play each other twice in a round-robin stage (home and away) before the semis and final. In all, 33 matches will be played in some of the greatest locations South Africa has to offer: Durban’s Super Giants (Kingsmead), Joburg Super Kings (Wanderers), MI Cape Town (Newlands), Paarl Royals (Boland Park), Pretoria Capitals (Centurion) and Sunrisers Eastern Cape (St George’s Park).

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