MI Cape Town qualified for the final of South Africa's SA20 league. They defeated Paarl Royals by 39 runs in Qualifier-1 played at St George's Park on Tuesday night. The franchise from Cape Town reached the final for the first time, where they will face the winner of Qualifier-2. In the match, Paarl Royals won the toss and chose to bowl. MI Cape Town scored 199 runs for 4 wickets in 20 overs. Chasing the target of 200 runs, the Paarl Royals were all out for 160 runs in 19.4 overs. Dewald Potgieter was the Player of the Match. He played an unbeaten innings of 32 runs off 17 balls. Rashid Khan achieves historic feat Taking 2 wickets, Rashid Khan has become the top wicket-taker in T20 cricket. He now has 633 T20 wickets. He surpassed Dwayne Bravo's record of 631 wickets. Strong start by Rickelton-Dussen, Brevis scores unbeaten 44
MI Cape Town made a strong start batting first. The team scored 66 runs without losing any wickets in the powerplay. Opener Ryan Rickelton played an innings of 44 runs off 27 balls and Rassie van der Dussen scored 40 runs off 32 balls. Both had an opening partnership of 87 runs off 56 balls. This partnership was broken by de Gliem. Dunith Wellalage created pressure, Rickelton-Atal out
Sri Lankan bowler Dunith Wellalage put pressure on Cape Town in the middle overs. He gave Cape Town two blows at the score of 93 runs. Wellalage had Rickelton caught by Owen. Then he got Sedikulah Atal caught by wicketkeeper Dinesh Karthik. Atal could not even open his account. Dewald Brevis then played an unbeaten innings of 44 runs in 30 balls to take the team to a score of 199 runs. George Linde also added 26 runs in 14 balls to his team's total. Poor start for Paarl, lost 3 wickets in powerplay
Paarl Royals, chasing 200 runs, had a poor start. The team lost 3 wickets while scoring 45 runs in the powerplay. Kagiso Rabada got Luan-du Pretorius caught by wicketkeeper Ryan Rickelton. Then Trent Boult got Michael Owen caught by Hendricks. He could only score 7 runs. Robin Herman (2 runs) was caught by Corbin Bosch. Miller-Karthik played important innings, but couldn't win
After losing 4 wickets at a score of 48 runs, David Miller and Dinesh Karthik tried to stabilize Paarl Royals in the middle order. Miller scored 45 runs off 26 balls, while Dinesh Karthik scored 31 runs off 28 balls. However, both couldn't lead their team to victory. For Cape Town, Trent Boult, Kagiso Rabada, Corbin Bosch and Rashid Khan took 2 wickets each. George Linde got one wicket.Original Article