Abongile Sodumo (South Africa), Lubabalo Gcuma (South Africa), Brad White (South Africa, TV)
Referee
Shandre Fritz (South Africa)
Toss
Pretoria Capitals elected to bat
OVS
Bowler :
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Over 17
Runs: 17
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Over 18
Runs: 9
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Over 19
Runs: 15
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Over 20
Runs: 5
All Overs
Player of the Match
Will Jacks
101(42)
2/18
Player of the Series
Heinrich Klaasen
Lucky Winner
Analysis
Weather Update
Centurion,South Africa
Updated: 19 Jan 00:30
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Commentary
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This is Dwaipayan Mukherjee, signing off with my fellow commentators, Rajarshi Das and Pragadeesh.
That's all from us tonight. Tomorrow is going to be the Western Derby - Kieron Pollard's MI Cape Town taking on David Miller's Paarl Royals. That should be a cracker. The action continues. We will do it all again tomorrow.
Will Jacks | Player of the Match: Very lucky to get a win. You don't need to overhit the ball here and we probably tried to overhit the ball last 2 games and got our plans right tonight. You find a plan and stick to it and tonight's the night it came off
Wayne Parnell: It was much-needed for us. Not unhappy with the score we got as we know if we bowl decently well, we have a chance. There is a little bit of variable bounce and it was more of a new ball wicket for the batters. The message is clear, just go out and express yourselves. I'm more process-driven and if you don't execute on a particular day, I'm not too fussed about it.
Keshav Maharaj - The bowlers in the middle and towards the back end gave us a good chance. When guys are going like that, we try to slow the tempo but they got the better of us, fairplay to them. Junior and Stoinis bowled really well at the back end. We can take a lot of positives in this game. We have world-class performers in our team and it's all about back to basics in the next game
Pretoria Capitals (204/9) defeat Durban Super Giants (187/7) by 17 runs
Matthew Breetzke - 33 (24) | JJ Smuts - 27 (23) Will Jacks - 2/18 | Hardus Viljoen - 2/39
First win of the season for Capitals! A hiccup on the road for the Super Giants, it does not hurt their journey too much, given their strong start to the campaign. What would please the Capitals fans most is that they have made an upward charge in the ladder. They move up to the fifth spot, handing the wooden spoon to Johannesburg Super Kings.
This would be marked as the match where Will Jacks left an impression with both bat and ball as he kept compounding the problems for his opponents tonight. His timely strikes with ball in hand only led to the strong Durban middle order to feel that urgency and force the pace of their innings - something that never really came off for them.
Durban Super Giants suffer their initial defeat, and they may regret not preserving wickets for the slog overs. This strategy could have allowed them to successfully chase the target of 205 on this pitch. Stay tuned for post-match reactions.
20
overs
187/7score
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1
1
0
1
1
runs
Keshav Maharaj*
25(12)
Dwaine Pretorius
19(10)
Jimmy Neesham
1/28
19.6 James Neesham to Keshav Maharaj, The Capitals win by 17 runs...Neesham lived up to the expecations in the final over as the Capitals get their first win in this tournament. off-pace delivery on a good length, dragged down to long-on
19.5 James Neesham to Dwaine Pretorius, back of a length on off-stump, knocked down to long-off for a single
19.4 James Neesham to Dwaine Pretorius, off-pace delivery on a good length outside off, Pretorius swings and misses
20 runs needed from 3 balls! Just no wides or no-balls please!
19.3 James Neesham to Keshav Maharaj, dug it short angling in, Maharaj helps it in front of square for a single
19.2 James Neesham to Dwaine Pretorius, pitched up on off-stump, Pretorius slices it uppishly to deep cover for a single
22 runs needed from the 5 balls!
Jimmy Neesham to bowl these crucial balls.. Parnell backing experience as Bosch also had an over left. Which camp are you in? This is another magnificent match. Nail-biter.
19.1 James Neesham to Keshav Maharaj, pitched up on a fuller length, Maharaj drives it down to long-off for a single
19
overs
182/7score
4
6
0
0
4
1
runs
Keshav Maharaj*
22(9)
Dwaine Pretorius
17(7)
Wayne Parnell
2/54
18.6 Wayne Parnell to Keshav Maharaj, pitched up on a fuller length on middle stump, Maharaj drags it down to long-on for a run
Only if this last ball goes for a boundary - then Durban have the momentum for the final over!
18.5 Wayne Parnell to Keshav Maharaj, FOUR! Pitched up on a fuller length wide of off-stump, Maharaj drills it powerfully past long-off for a boundary
18.4 Wayne Parnell to Keshav Maharaj, back of a length angling across off-stump, Maharaj shuffles and goes for another swing across the line but misses out completely
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Keshav Maharaj
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Jimmy Neesham
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