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Best performances - Batsmen

AK Markram
AK Markram
43(29) 4x4 - 1x6
Control %73%
  • Productive Shot
  • cover drive
  • 12 runs
  • 2x4 - 0x6
2 1 3 5 12 13 2 5
DP Conway
43(40) 5x4 - 0x6
Control %65%
  • Productive Shot
  • cover drive
  • 11 runs
  • 1x4 - 0x6
0 6 6 7 2 7 5 10

Best performances - Bowlers

M Jansen
M Jansen
O4
M0
R19
W2
Eco4.75
RHB
OFFLEG
1W
1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
OEG Baartman
O4
M0
R32
W2
Eco8
RHB
OFFLEG
1W
1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF

Scorer: Ranjith P | Commentator: Shashwat Kumar

END OF OVER:
20 | 10 Runs | JSK: 151/8 (15 runs required, RR: 7.55)

  • Wihan Lubbe17 (11b)
  • Imran Tahir0 (1b)
  • Richard Gleeson4-0-37-2
  • Ottneil Baartman4-0-32-2

9:25pm That will be all from us for this game. We hope you enjoyed our coverage and we will be back with more cricket in a few hours' time. Until then, this is goodbye and goodnight from Ranjith and myself!

Marco Jansen, Player of the Match: (On if this is the best crowd) Absolutely. No better crowd in the country. You definitely feel their presence, which is nice. (On their death-overs batting and when they decided to pull the trigger) I didn't pull much of a trigger, I just got ones (smiles). When there were three overs left, we decided to make a play. Stubbs played fantastically. Gleeson has good pace, he swings the ball, nips it, which works nicely on this ground. We bowled nice lines and lengths and reaped the rewards. (Length changes) All depends on the wicket. Today, we felt bowling a hard length was working. Some would skid on, some would stop. We thought if we could hit a hard length, that would be most difficult (for the batters). Ideally, we would like it like that (winning every match) but we will take each game as it comes.

Aiden Markram, Sunrisers Eastern Cape captain: (On their bowling attack) More often than not, it is the execution by them. They are clear in their plans, have played a lot of T20 cricket. They assess conditions, come up with the plan and then it comes down to execution. They have been clutch for us. Even tonight, the game was in the balance, they came up with plans and executed (to win the game for us). It can be a tough place to score freely. Running between the wickets (releases pressure). In a tight game, that might be the difference. Each team wants to hunt you down and that's fair. Not get emotionally invest ourselves into that. You have a target on your back but a game of cricket will always be won out there (on the field). (On the atmosphere) The best. The crowd has been epic for us. Full house again tonight. Covered in orange and incredibly loud as well. Lots of love for them.

Faf du Plessis, Joburg Super Kings captain: They have a strong batting line-up. It was there and thereabouts (with regards to a par score). 160, it felt like a good score. They bowled really well. There was quite a bit of movement early on. Got ourselves in a good position but could not kick on and make the partnership a match-breaking one. There was a period there when Dev and Leus were batting well. We were in line to be more attacking and positive but then we lost that wicket. They bowled some tight overs, put pressure back on us. They (SEC) are very successful at home. Last year, we got on a bit of a run at home. Look forward to the challenge (of playing them at our home) in a few days' time.

9:03pm Another home game, another Sunrisers Eastern Cape victory. They have made a habit of it and tonight was yet another illustration. Their bowlers came to the fore after their batters powered them to what seemed an above-par total. Jansen took out du Plessis early and then returned to remove Bairstow later in the innings. In between, du Plooy and Conway had threatened a terrific riposte but neither could sustain that enough to truly haul JSK in front.

Most of SEC's decisions also seemed to pay off. They opted to bowl off-spinners to du Plooy and Conway, with Markram bagging the former. They brought on Dawson for just the one over but that was at a time when the run-rate was climbing and JSK needed to take risks, which ultimately led to Conway's dismissal, opening the door for the defending champions to barge through.

19.6
4
Gleeson to Lubbe, FOUR, Lubbe ends with a boundary but it is not enough for the Joburg Super Kings! The Sunrisers Eastern Cape make it four in a row, and they waltz up to second in the points table! Full toss just outside off. Lubbe has a wild hack at it and drags it through the vacant square leg region. A cacophony of noise at St George's Park and the thousands at the ground are relishing every moment. They are enjoying their Friday night, and their team has done what they would have wanted them to do!
19.5
0
Gleeson to Lubbe, no run, full and speared across outside off. Lubbe, rather ambitiously, shapes for the reverse-lap and makes no contact whatsoever
19.4
0
Gleeson to Lubbe, no run, length outside off. Lubbe looks for the step-hit down the ground but the ball comes onto him too quickly. Shanks it to long on

Three sixes and we go into a...(well, you know that already). Anything else and SEC will win

19.3
2
Gleeson to Lubbe, 2 runs, short and wide outside off. Lubbe gets his hands through the ball again and cuts it between deep cover and deep point. Back for a brace
19.2
4
Gleeson to Lubbe, FOUR, wow, what a shot! Zipped in full outside off. Lubbe walks a mile across his stumps and paddles it beautifully between backward square leg and short fine leg!

25 off 5

19.1
0
Gleeson to Lubbe, no run, fullish outside off. Lubbe throws his hands at it and drills it towards sweeper cover. Denies the single, which is the right call

Gleeson to bowl the last over. JSK need 25

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Super Kings 2nd innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st34F du PlessisDP Conway
2nd50DP ConwayJL du Plooy
3rd21JM BairstowDP Conway
4th10JM BairstowD Ferreira
5th7WJ LubbeD Ferreira
6th0WJ LubbeE Jones
7th9GC ViljoenWJ Lubbe
8th10WJ LubbeM Theekshana
9th10Imran TahirWJ Lubbe