SA20 League 2025: Sunrisers Eastern Cape vs Pretoria Capitals Match Preview, SA20 League 2025

7th T20 • SuperSport Park • Centurion

Sunrisers Eastern Cape

113 (19.4)

Pretoria Capitals

115/4 (16)

PC won by 6 wickets

Info

Fantasy

Live

Scorecard

Stats

Playing XI

Table

Date & Time

14 Jan, 04:30 PM IST

Venue

SuperSport Park, Centurion

Match

7th T20,

Umpires

Dennis Smith (South Africa), Siphelele Gasa (South Africa), Lubabalo Gcuma (South Africa, TV)

Referee

Zed Ndamane (South Africa)

Toss

Pretoria Capitals elected to bowl

Pitch Report

This is a belter of a pitch. There is a bit of sheen on the wicket but it is ever so slightly tacky. So, there may be a bit of movement off the seam early on. However, it is a good surface to bat on.

1st Innings

168Avg Runs

7Avg Wkts

144.68Avg SR

2nd Innings

146Avg Runs

6Avg Wkts

142.54Avg SR

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Points Table

Head To Head (Last 10 Matches)

3- 2

SEC

Team Form (Recent 5 Matches, Latest First)

Pretoria Capitals

Sunrisers Eastern Cape

Players to Watch

Top Batters

Aiden Markram

SEC . BAT

101 Runs

2 Matches

Rahmanullah Gurbaz

PC . WK

89 Runs

2 Matches

Will Jacks

PC . BAT

64 Runs

2 Matches

Top Bowlers

Senuran Muthusamy

PC . ALL

3 Wkts

2 Matches

Marco Jansen

SEC . ALL

3 Wkts

2 Matches

Richard Gleeson

SEC . BOWL

2 Wkts

2 Matches

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Venue Details

SuperSport Park, Centurion

This is a belter of a pitch. There is a bit of sheen on the wicket but it is ever so slightly tacky. So, there may be a bit of movement off the seam early on. However, it is a good surface to bat on.

1st Innings

168Avg Runs

7Avg Wkts

144.68Avg SR

2nd Innings

146Avg Runs

6Avg Wkts

142.54Avg SR

Toss winners opt to

23%Bat First Bowl First77%

Team Batting First

49%Wins Losses51%

Recent Matches on venue

26th Match • Feb 1 • SA20

PC 214/8 (20)

MICT 248/4 (20)

MICT won by 34 runs

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18th Match • Jan 25 • SA20

PC 125/10 (18.3)

SEC 122/9 (20)

PC won by 3 runs

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10th Match • Jan 18 • SA20

PC 204/9 (20)

DSG 187/7 (20)

PC won by 17 runs

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6th Match • Jan 14 • SA20

PC 200/7 (20)

PR 210/3 (20)

PR won by 10 runs

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30th Match • Feb 7 • SA20

PC 226/5 (20)

PR 167/9 (20)

PC won by 59 runs

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28th Match • Feb 5 • SA20

PC 103/10 (13.5)

DSG 254/4 (20)

DSG won by 151 runs

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26th Match • Feb 4 • SA20

PC 160/9 (20)

MICT 159/10 (19.4)

PC won by 1 wicket

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13th Match • Jan 18 • SA20

PC 123/4 (13)

JSK 122/10 (15.4)

PC won by 6 wickets

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6th Match • Jan 14 • SA20

PC 216/6 (20)

SEC 179/7 (20)

PC won by 37 runs

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Team Form (Last 5 Matches, Most recent first)

Team Form (Last 5 Matches)

Pretoria Capitals

Sunrisers Eastern Cape

Head To Head (Last 10 Matches)

3- 2

SEC

Team Comparison (Last 10 Matches)

Matches Played

Matches Won

163

Average Score

141

214/8

Highest Score

208/4

52/10

Lowest Score

54/1

Player of the Match Eathan Bosch

2/18

Player of the Series Marco Jansen

SEC

Info

Sunrisers Eastern Cape

113/10 (19.4)

Batters

David Bedingham

40.00

c Verreynne b Dupavillon

Zak Crawley

33.33

c Rossouw b Bosch

Tom Abell

69.23

b Pretorius

Aiden Markram

(C)

0.00

c Rahmanullah Gurbaz b Dupavillon

Tristan Stubbs

91.67

c Muthusamy b Bosch

Patrick Kruger

47.62

c & b Muthusamy

Marco Jansen

145.71

c Rossouw b Neesham

Simon Harmer

116.67

b Muthusamy

Craig Overton

109.09

b Dupavillon

Ottniel Baartman

50.00

c Muthusamy b Neesham

Richard Gleeson

100.00

Not out

Extras

(B: 0, LB: 2, NB: 0, W: 2)

TOTAL

(19.4 Ov, RR: 5.75)

113/10

Bowlers

EXT

4.50

8.00

5.25

3.4

3.00

Senuran Muthusamy

7.25

Fall Of Wickets

SCORE

OVER

Zak Crawley

c Rossouw b Bosch

1-4

0.6

David Bedingham

c Verreynne b Dupavillon

2-4

1.2

Aiden Markram

c Rahmanullah Gurbaz b Dupavillon

3-4

1.3

Tom Abell

b Pretorius

4-24

5.2

Tristan Stubbs

c Muthusamy b Bosch

5-26

6.4

Patrick Kruger

c & b Muthusamy

6-50

11.6

Simon Harmer

b Muthusamy

7-90

15.2

Marco Jansen

c Rossouw b Neesham

8-98

16.4

Craig Overton

b Dupavillon

9-109

18.6

Ottniel Baartman

c Muthusamy b Neesham

10-113

19.4

Pretoria Capitals

115/4 (16)

Batters

Will Jacks

117.39

c Baartman b Gleeson

Rahmanullah Gurbaz

77.78

c Jansen b Overton

Kyle Verreynne

133.33

c Stubbs b Gleeson

Rilee Rossouw

(C)

109.09

c (sub Simelane) b Baartman

Liam Livingstone

100.00

Not out

Marques Ackerman

130.00

Not out

Extras

(B: 0, LB: 3, NB: 0, W: 1)

TOTAL

(16 Ov, RR: 7.19)

115/4

Did not Bat

Jimmy Neesham, Senuran Muthusamy, Migael Pretorius, Eathan Bosch, Daryn Dupavillon

Bowlers

EXT

8.25

6.25

10.33

3.00

7.00

Fall Of Wickets

SCORE

OVER

Rahmanullah Gurbaz

c Jansen b Overton

1-23

2.6

Kyle Verreynne

c Stubbs b Gleeson

2-44

5.6

Will Jacks

c Baartman b Gleeson

3-49

7.3

Rilee Rossouw

c (sub Simelane) b Baartman

4-61

8.6

Match Info

Date & Time

14 Jan, 04:30 PM IST

Venue

SuperSport Park, Centurion

Match

7th T20,

Umpires

Dennis Smith (South Africa), Siphelele Gasa (South Africa), Lubabalo Gcuma (South Africa, TV)

Referee

Zed Ndamane (South Africa)

Toss

Pretoria Capitals elected to bowl

0 0 2 1 1 1

Over 13

Runs: 5

2 1 4 0 1 1

Over 14

Runs: 9

0 4 0 1 1 1wd 1

Over 15

Runs: 8

0 6 0 0 4 6

Over 16

Runs: 16

All Overs

Player of the Match Eathan Bosch

2/18

Player of the Series Marco Jansen

Commentary

4:40 PM local time (8:10 PM IST): That is it from this low-scoring contest as the Pretoria Capitals dominated in all three departments of the game and hence clinched the bonus point as well against the double defending champions, Sunrisers Eastern Cape. With that, I, Keshav, and my co-commentator Bidipto, bid you adieu. For now you can tune into the SA20 game between Joburg Super Kings and Durban Super Giants.

Rilee Rossouw (Pretoria Capitals captain): We started off really well with the ball and the experience there with Liam Livingstone at the end and Marques Ackerman played an unbelievable knock to take us across the line. On a normal Centurion wicket, it was a bit tricky out there, so we wanted to take it as deep as we can. They played it so well to try and push for that bonus point. (On seamers early on) That's something we have had good transparency over the first game. We were worried aboutt our line and lengths and our bowlers came up and performed and put it in the right spot today and asked the right questions. The credit has go to the bowlers to really, really focus on their job today and executing is the main thing and they did fantastically well. With the win that we got today with the bonus point, it's fantastic to see supporters in the stands. We need to talk about these weekday games. Nonetheless, any supporter we get, we do wanna represent them and hopefully we can win for them.

Aiden Markram (Sunrisers Eastern Cape captain): We're definitely not going to blame it on the toss. We are a much better team than what our performances have suggested. We need to regroup now and get back to winning ways. We have some fine players there and we do back them to get the job done. I'm not a big fan of issuing directives to the rest of the team as to how to play, but we will discuss things and not throw the towel in.

Eathan Bosch (Player of the Match, 2/18 from 4 overs): The pitch was under the covers for a couple of days. So we got the help from that. But of course, we bowled in the right areas and got all the wickets that we could up at the top. The guys were a little bit disappointed at losing the first game, so it is great to get a win here!

4:26 pm local time (7:56 pm IST): It is now time for the post-match presentation!

4:13 PM Local time (7:43 PM IST): Pretoria Capitals win the game by six wickets with 24 balls remaining and hence get the bonus point as well.

Pretoria Capitals: 115/4 (16) | Sunrisers Eastern Cape: 113/10 (19.4)
Marques Ackerman: 39 (30) | Richard Gleeson: 2/31 (3)
Marco Jansen: 51 (35) | Daryn Dupavillon: 3/32 (4)

Pretoria Capitals get the first win of their campaign and that too in some style by getting a bonus point. They were the better team in all the three departments of the game today. However, their chase had some hiccups as they were 61/4 after 9 overs.

Marques Ackerman and Liam Livingstone took some time in the middle after the fall of four wickets and batted patiently to not lose the plot in this low-scoring game. Following the wicket of Rossouw, both of them batted just over five runs per over for four overs. In the next two overs, they smacked two boundaries apiece to accelerate the chase a bit.

This slight change of gears left them with 15 runs needed in the 16th over to get the bonus point. And it did have a slight climactic end with Ackerman smacking three boundaries in the over. Started the over with a dot ball and then smacked a maximum over mid-wicket. With 9 needed off 4 deliveries, he pulled it hard to deep backward square-leg where the fielder was fidgety in preventing a boundary. There could have been a single but Ackerman slipped in the middle of the track and it turned out to be a dot ball. He missed out the next delivery too. The equation to get the bonus point now stood at 9 runs from 2 deliveries and Ackerman smashed a boundary and a six to get the job done.

Will Jacks provided a decent start to his team with consistent boundaries in the powerplay, before edging to deep backward square leg at the team score of 49 runs. Rilee Rossouw smacked a boundary and a six but he too departed soon after. Ackerman and Livingstone held the responsibility to take the Capitals to second position in the table with 7 points from three games.

Among the bowlers, Richard Gleeson picked two wickets, however, he conceded runs at an economy of over 10 runs per over as his pace aided the batters.

And Ackerman gets his side the bonus point by hitting a biggie over mid-on.

overs

115 /4 score

runs

Marques Ackerman *

39 (30)

Liam Livingstone

14 (14)

Marco Jansen

0 /25

15.6 Marco Jansen to Marques Ackerman, PRETORIA CAPITALS DO IT IN STYLE! THEY FINISH IT OFF WITH A SIX ANS COLLECT THE BONUS POINT! In the slot and slow around off-stump. Ackerman got in position by clearing the front leg, bent down low and clubbed it over the man at wide long-on to pick up a maximum and end the match!

15.5 Marco Jansen to Marques Ackerman, FOUR RUNS! Full toss on leg-stump. Ackerman gets across yet again and clips it into the gap at long-leg for a boundary!

15.4 Marco Jansen to Marques Ackerman, Oh! Full and wide outside off-stump with the cutter. Ackerman went way across the line to try and ramp it, but failed to make any contact! No run.

15.3 Marco Jansen to Marques Ackerman, OH WELL! IT IS A DOT BALL! Good length ball on middle-and-leg. Heaved to the deep backward square-leg area for no run as the batter slipped in the middle of the pitch! The fielding too was iffy, but good enough to prevent a boundary.

Just 9 runs needed now. Looks like the Capitals are giving it a chance to go for the bonus point and they have four deliveries to get it done.

15.2 Marco Jansen to Marques Ackerman, SIX RUNS! Good length ball outside off-stump. Ackerman bends low and smacks it hard and flat, wide of long-on for a maximum!

15.1 Marco Jansen to Marques Ackerman, over the wicket, back of a length outside off-stump. The shot over the point area on the up gets missed! No run.

Marco Jansen [3-1-9-0] is back into the attack

To have a chance at getting the bonus point, the Durban Capitals will have to chase the target in the next six balls. They are just 15 runs off the target.

overs

99 /4 score

1wd

runs

Marques Ackerman *

23 (24)

Liam Livingstone

14 (14)

Richard Gleeson

2 /31

14.6 Richard Gleeson to Marques Ackerman, full outside off-stump this time. Bunted to the right of mid-on off the front foot for a quick but risky single!

14.6 Richard Gleeson to Marques Ackerman, short and way too WIDE over the head of the batter with this slower delivery! Time to reload.

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