{"id":368294,"date":"2026-01-14T00:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T00:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/368294\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T00:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T00:03:09","slug":"sa20-results-sikandar-razas-last-ball-six-lifts-paarl-up-to-second","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/368294\/","title":{"rendered":"SA20 results: Sikandar Raza&#8217;s last-ball six lifts Paarl up to second"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sikandar Raza struck a last-ball six to lead Paarl Royals to a nailbiting victory over Durban&#8217;s Super Giants in the SA20.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Needing two to win off the final ball, Raza struck David Wiese&#8217;s full toss over mid-wicket for the winning runs to lift the Royals up to second in the table.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The platform was provided by a 106-run stand between England&#8217;s Dan Lawrence (63) and Rubin Hermann (65 not out) for the third wicket.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lawrence and David Miller (2) fell in quick succession to leave 42 still needed off the last 27 balls, but Hermann found a capable partner in Zimbabwe&#8217;s Raza, who struck an unbeaten 27 off 13 balls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Super Giants captain Aiden Markam hit 66 from 44 balls having seen fellow top-order batters Sunil Narine and Jos Buttler dismissed for 22 and three respectively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The opener put on 76 with David Bedingham (25), before the pair were dismissed in the space of 10 balls to leave Super Giants on 127-4 in the 17th over.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England&#8217;s Liam Livingstone took over, hitting 32 from 10 deliveries and adding a swift 52-ball partnership with fellow big hitter Heinrich Klaasen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nqobani Mokoena had Klaasen caught for 29 after being hit for a four and six successively, prior to Livingstone adding his fourth and final six to close the innings on 186-5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sikandar Raza struck a last-ball six to lead Paarl Royals to a nailbiting victory over Durban&#8217;s Super Giants&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-368294","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\/368294","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=368294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}