Defending champions Sunrisers Eastern Cape efficiently defended their SA20 title on Saturday (February 10) as they outclassed Durban’s Super Giants within the summit conflict by a convincing margin of 89 runs.
The Aiden Markram-led Sunrisers obtained fortunate with the toss first up and utilised that chance to the fullest.Â
After deciding to bat first on their dwelling turf, the defending champions suffered an early setback as they misplaced opener Dawid Malan within the second over itself.
However, the early jitter did not derail the house crew as Jordan Hermann and Tom Abell obtained collectively within the center and pushed the Super Giants assault on the backfoot.
The pair added 90 runs for the second wicket and consumed simply 54 balls in doing so. Both Hermann (42 off 26 balls) and Abell (55 off 34 balls) fell in fast succession afterwards however the Sunrisers captain and Tristan Stubbs picked up from the place they left off.
Markram (42* off 56 deliveries) and Stubbs (56* off 30 balls) decimated the Keshav Maharaj-led bowling assault and the latter was discovered wanting.
While Markram’s knock got here at a surprising strike price of 161.53, Stubbs outplayed his captain and racked up his runs at an eye-popping price of 186.66 with the assistance of 4 fours and three sixes.
Chasing 205 to declare glory, Super Giants obtained off to a nightmarish begin and had been by no means in competition to chase the full down.
Sunrisers’ left-arm speedster Marco Jansen was the wrecker-in-chief as he bagged a five-for and lowered the Super Giants’ batting order to mud.
Super Giants finally folded for 115 in 17 overs. They solely had the largest particular person award to cope with as their power-packed performer Heinrich Klaasen was awarded the Player of the Tournament for his scintillating show. Klaasen notched up 447 runs in your complete season at an astounding strike price of 207.90 and completed because the second-leading run-scorer after MI Cape Town’s Ryan Rickleton (530 runs).
