- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR4.6 sliced to short extra cover! Root, who was placed there, leaps barely a foot, and takes it with a reverse cup. Hermann, like his opening partner Crawley, decided to skip down the pitch, and loft over the in field. The ball was on a length around off, and Hermann only ended up opening the face of the bat and chipping it to Root 39/24.4 popped up for SA20 debutant Karthik! PR's wicketkeeper sticks his right hand out, and eventually takes it on the second attempt with both his gloves intact. It was a length delivery on the stumps, and the ball turned back in. Crawley came down the pitch and looked to have a swat, but ended up getting a bottom edge on to his back knee. The ball jumped up off it, and went to Karthik's right 38/18.5 slower delivery, and around sixth stump, as he bowls on a length. Abell plays the late cut wide of deep third, from where the throw arrives hurriedly, and close to the stumps. Karthik whips the bails off, and the PR players go up in excitement for a potential run-out. And, and... looking at the replays, you wonder why the square-leg umpire even referred it upstairs - because even as Abell was diving, he ended up a hundred miles off. So just as SEC had started rebuilding, they lose a wicket to hand it back to PR 69/319.2 taken by Hain! A back-of-the-hand slower ball on a fullish length on the stumps, as Markram went ramming it down the ground. But seemingly beaten by the lack of pace, he eventually only ended up skying the ball very high. Hain, at long-off, grabbed it after judging it well 171/419.6 pocketed at deep midwicket! Jansen was sitting deep in the crease, and even went across the stumps. Maphaka chose to go on the shorter side of a length, and got this slower ball to shape away and finish around sixth stump. Jansen went thumping at it with a hard pull, but couldn't clear the boundary 175/5Extras4 (lb 1, w 3)TOTAL175/5 (20 Overs, RR: 8.75)Fall of wickets: 1-38 (Zak Crawley, 4.4 ov), 2-39 (Jordan Hermann, 4.6 ov), 3-69 (Tom Abell, 8.5 ov), 4-171 (Aiden Markram, 19.2 ov), 5-175 (Marco Jansen, 19.6 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ 0s 4s 6s WD NB BC Fortuin 4 0 24 0 6 4 1 0 0 0 KT Maphaka 4 0 35 2 8.75 9 3 2 0 0 Mujeeb Ur Rahman 4 0 27 2 6.75 9 1 1 1 0 L Ngidi 4 0 42 0 10.5 5 6 0 0 0 AD Galiem 4 0 46 0 11.5 3 2 2 2 0
Player of the Match
Player of the Match
- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR12.6 ehhh, given out lbw on 97! And as we'd think, Pretorius reviews! This looked out on first impression, though, but we'll see. Jansen went full and around off, as Pretorius looked to whip it away from deep on the crease. He is neaten on the inside edge - there's no bat involved - and hit on the side of his front leg. And indeed ball tracking shows the ball would have hit the middle of leg stump. A superb knock comes to an end, three runs painfully short 132/1Extras0TOTAL176/1 (18.4 Overs, RR: 9.42)Fall of wickets: 1-132 (Lhuan-dre Pretorius, 12.6 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ 0s 4s 6s WD NB AK Markram 2 0 25 0 12.5 2 1 2 0 0 M Jansen 4 0 31 1 7.75 11 4 1 0 0 SR Harmer 4 0 34 0 8.5 4 2 1 0 0 RJ Gleeson 3 0 30 0 10 5 3 1 0 0 LA Dawson 3 0 23 0 7.66 3 1 1 0 0 OEG Baartman 2.4 0 33 0 12.37 1 4 1 0 0
Match Details
Series
Toss
Sunrisers Eastern Cape , elected to bat first
Player Of The Match
Season
Hours of play (local time)
13.00 start, First Session 13.00-14.30, Interval 14.30-14.50, Second Session 14.50-16.20
Match days
11 January 2025 (20-over match)
Umpires
TV Umpires
Reserve Umpire
Match Referee
Points
Paarl Royals 4, Sunrisers Eastern Cape 0
Match Notes
- Powerplay 1: Overs 0.1 - 6.0 (Mandatory - 50 runs, 2 wickets)
- Sunrisers Eastern Cape: 50 runs in 5.4 overs (34 balls), Extras 1
- Strategic Timeout: Sunrisers Eastern Cape - 57/2 in 7.0 overs (TB Abell 16, AK Markram 3)
- Sunrisers Eastern Cape: 100 runs in 13.5 overs (83 balls), Extras 2
- 4th Wicket: 50 runs in 39 balls (AK Markram 37, T Stubbs 14, Ex 1)
- AK Markram: 50 off 33 balls (5 x 4)
- Strategic Timeout: Sunrisers Eastern Cape - 126/3 in 16.0 overs (AK Markram 52, T Stubbs 15)
- Sunrisers Eastern Cape: 150 runs in 18.1 overs (109 balls), Extras 4
- 4th Wicket: 100 runs in 62 balls (AK Markram 71, T Stubbs 28, Ex 3)
- Innings Break: Sunrisers Eastern Cape - 175/5 in 20.0 overs (T Stubbs 28)
- Powerplay 1: Overs 0.1 - 6.0 (Mandatory - 57 runs, 0 wicket)
- Paarl Royals: 50 runs in 5.2 overs (32 balls), Extras 0
- 1st Wicket: 50 runs in 32 balls (LG Pretorius 34, JE Root 16, Ex 0)
- Strategic Timeout: Paarl Royals - 57/0 in 6.0 overs (LG Pretorius 34, JE Root 23)
- LG Pretorius: 50 off 31 balls (6 x 4, 2 x 6)
- Paarl Royals: 100 runs in 9.6 overs (60 balls), Extras 0
- 1st Wicket: 100 runs in 60 balls (LG Pretorius 69, JE Root 31, Ex 0)
- Over 12.6: Review by Paarl Royals (Batting), Decision Challenged - Wicket, Umpire - SD Harris, Batter - LG Pretorius (Struck down)
- Paarl Royals: 150 runs in 15.6 overs (96 balls), Extras 0
- Strategic Timeout: Paarl Royals - 150/1 in 16.0 overs (JE Root 47, DA Miller 6)
- JE Root: 50 off 38 balls (3 x 4, 1 x 6)
Match Coverage
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