Sunrisers Eastern Cape defeated Paarl Royals by 48 runs in the 28th match of SA20 played on Saturday. Eastern Cape won the toss and elected to bat first and scored 148 runs for the loss of 8 wickets in 20 overs. In reply, Paarl Royals were all out for 100 runs in 18.2 overs.
Jordan Harman scored 53 runs in 38 balls
Eastern Cape scored 148 runs. Jordan Harman scored a half-century for the team. He scored 53 runs in 38 balls. Apart from him, Tristan Stubbs made an important contribution of 43 runs. Bjorn Fortuin, Mitchell Owen and Ishan Malinga took 2-2 wickets for Paarl Royals. Dunith Velalez got one wicket.
8 players of Royals could not even touch the double digit mark
Chasing the target of 149 runs, Rubin Harman scored the highest 35 runs for Paarl Royals. Andile Phehlukwayo scored 22 and Mujeeb ur Rahman scored 11 runs. Apart from these three players, no other batsman of the team could touch the double digit mark. Marco Jansen and Craig Overton took 3-3 wickets for Eastern Cape. Aiden Markram took 2 wickets. Liam Dawson and Richard Gleeson got 1-1 wickets.
The playoffs of the tournament will be held at three venues
After the group stage, the top-2 teams will play Qualifier-1. The team that wins this match will reach the final. This match will be played at St. George’s Park. The third and fourth ranked teams will play an eliminator match. The team that wins this eliminator match will face the team that loses in Qualifier-1 in Qualifier-2. Both these matches will be played at Centurion.
Sunrisers Eastern Cape won the first two seasons of SA20
The first two seasons of this league were won by Sunrisers Eastern Cape, captained by Aiden Markram. In the first season, Eastern Cape won the title by defeating Pretoria Capitals. While last season, the team won the trophy for the second consecutive time by defeating Durban Super Giants in the final.