Rain threatened to push the game into tomorrow but it relented. The conditions it left behind were tough, the pitch was two-paced and there was drizzle in patches. But Capitals, as the skipper said, scrapped through and became SA20's first team to make the final. Join us tomorrow if to find out if they'll be joined by Sunrisers or Super Kings. For now, it's me Ekanth, signing off on behalf of my co-commentator, Danyal and our scorer, Thilak.

Theunis de Bruyn, Capitals Captain: Very happy, these kinds of wickets bring teams close together. Runs will be less, so it'll be a scrappy affair. The bowlers are the engine room, they've been fantastic. One more game to go. I don't know about Wayne, they're taking it day by day. But we need to stay calm, and if it goes our way it goes our way.

Rilee Rossouw, POTM: The plan was for me to bowl if there were two left-handers out there. I bowl in big games, and I take wickets in the semi-final. It was a two-paced pitch, new ball went up and down. We lost wickets in the middle, decided to take it deep and it paid off in the end. In pressure games like this 153 is like 160-170 on that type of wicket. Our bowlers did well to win it for us.

David Miller, Royals Captain: It was gut-wrenching. Think we bowled well, one or two overs were expensive but that happens. We lost too many wickets while batting which cost us. The wicket was tacky, they played well upfront with the bat to get Lungi away. Probably 145 was par. We'd bowled well but let ourselves down in the last three overs. Obviously short at the end of the day. We did well overall in the season, it's difficult to carry momentum through. We lost-won, lost-won and didn't really hit our strap. We can reflect on a good season, having made the semi-final. It's been a great competition, sad it ends like this.

Capitals have shown they're not only consistent, but also clutch. They thrashed the Royals yesterday, and, well, they've made short work of them today, too, in the end. It's handshakes all around, and now PC can look forward to Saturday's showpiece final. Bosch was brilliant all around. He got Roy early, followed it with the key wicket of Buttler. Rashid got Stirling who was looking good, then snuck a googly through Vilas. Neesham took a couple, Nortje wasn't on top but finished off the game. For Royals, Buttler and Stirling started big but were undone by spin. The middle-order bats got starts but were cut short. Miller tried to fight through but fell short.

See, semi-finals can be such great things.

Leachy: "Batting from PR has been awful all tournament... get Miller on strike!!!"