PC vs JSK

That's all we have for you from the SA20 game between the Pretoria Capitals and Joburg Super Kings!! Do stay with Sportskeeda for more live cricketing action, including all the News and Updates.  This is Subhashish, along with Bidipto signing off. Hope you have a great evening and a wonderful weekend!!

Faf du Plessis (Joburg Super Kings captain): "Rilee Rossouw and Wiaan Mulder were excellent! They assessed the conditions really well! We were a few runs short, considering how well they batted, but, we hit the good length hard and got the rewards. It's always adapting to the conditions that comes up trumps. It's a scrappy win, more like our favourite kind of wins!" 

"It was a bit tricky early on with the new ball; it was quite spicy up front, and the maturity they showed in their batting to hang in and build that partnership was crucial. They are the reason we got to a decent total, although we were probably still 10 or 15 runs short considering how well they batted. That partnership was key for me. We also saw first-hand what the wickets can do when we were batting, so the plans were pretty straightforward - hit that hard length because it was difficult to score. 

"I think being local players and being comfortable in familiar surroundings definitely helps, especially when you’re playing your first game in a competition like this, but the wicket still wasn’t a typical SuperSport Park wicket, so adapting to the conditions was the real key, and I thought our bowlers did that really well"

Keshav Maharaj (Pretoria Capitals captain): "We gave away around 10-15 runs too much on a spicy wicket, but I thought we should have been much better with the bat through the middle. It's never easy to get the right bowlers to come on at the right times because there is so much at play, but, we will get better as we keep playing and assess the conditions." 

Joburg Super Kings 168/6 off 20 overs
Pretoria Capitals 146/9 off 20 overs

Joburg Super Kings win by 22 runs

Will Smeed and Bryce Parson laid a solid foundation at the top of the order for the Pretoria Capitals, so much so that at one stage it looked like the Capitals were cruising home.  At 71/0, the Super Kings needed quick wickets, and it was Akeal Hosein who got Will Smeed at 34 (30).  Bryce Parsons was cantering along at the other end, but Shai Hope fell to Duan Jansen before Dewald Brevis flattered only to deceive, beginning with a flourish but perishing having scored just six runs.  Parsons himself fell to Duan Jansen even as the alarm bells rang out following Connor Esterhuizen's wicket!! Roston Chase attempted a recovery of sorts before being scalped by Wiaan Mulder.

Duan Jansen was the pick of the bowlers, backed up ably by Wiaan Mulder, while Akeal Hosein did his bit as well!!

For the Joburg Super Kings, who did not have the best of starts, Rilee Rossouw and Wiaan Mulder were the main contributors with the bat en route to a handy total of 168/6.

Quite a contest this even as the scales tilted completely in favour of the Super Kings who come up with a well-deserved win!

19.6 Richard Gleeson to Lungisani Ngidi, FOUR MORE! BUT JOBURG SUPER KINGS WIN! Full toss on off-stump. Ngidi made some room and smoked it over mid-off for a boundary. But the Super Kings complete their first ever win here in Centurion! 

19.5 Richard Gleeson to Tymal Mills, FAF DU PLESSIS TAKES A STUNNING CATCH! Full toss on off-stump. Mills mistimes the big shot over the top. The ball was supposed to land at mid-on, but the Super Kings skipper ran in from mid-off, put in the dive and caught it outstandingly with the dash forward, to take it inches off the ground! 

19.4 Richard Gleeson to Codi Yusuf, back of a length on middle-stump. Yusuf angles the bat face and gets it down to short third man for a quick single! 

19.3 Richard Gleeson to Codi Yusuf, FOUR RUNS! Good length and slow on off-stump. Yusuf bunts it on the up over mid-on and collects a boundary. 

18.6 Dian Forrester to Tymal Mills, back of a length and slow over middle-stump. The heave-ho across the line from the back foot gets missed. No run.