{"id":349171,"date":"2026-01-03T02:06:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T02:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/349171\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T02:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T02:06:07","slug":"sa20-results-mi-cape-town-collapse-sees-paaral-royal-snatch-one-run-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/349171\/","title":{"rendered":"SA20 results: MI Cape Town collapse sees Paaral Royal snatch one-run win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A middle-order collapse from MI Cape Town helped Paarl Royals snatch a dramatic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/scorecard\/e-229119\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">one-run win<\/a> in the SA20.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chasing 182, Cape Town&#8217;s chase got off to a strong start with Ryan Rickelton (36 off 20) and Rassie van Dussen (59 off 42) putting on 77 for the first wicket.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cape Town were 109-1 but dramatically slipped to 118-6 in a 18-ball spell with Ottneil Baartman (4-51) and Sikandar Raza (3-27) both picking up two wickets. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, captain Rashid Khan crashed 35 off 18 balls, in a stand of 51 off 27 balls with George Linde.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That set up a scenario where Cape Town needed 15 from the last over.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rashid took two from the first ball before he holed out to long-off off Baartman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kagiso Rabada hit his first delivery for six to leave seven from three balls required, but he picked out long-on next ball. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Trent Boult took a single next, leaving six required from the last ball, but George Linde could only hit for four. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Earlier, Royals posted 181-3 with Lhuan-dre Pretorius making 98 not out, which is the highest individual score in Paarl Royals&#8217; history. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was supported by Glamorgan and England Lions batter Asa Tribe, who made 51 off 34 balls at the top of the order. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The win sees Royals climb to third, while defending champions Cape Town are bottom, having failed to win in their first four matches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A middle-order collapse from MI Cape Town helped Paarl Royals snatch a dramatic one-run win in the SA20.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-349171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}