{"id":370850,"date":"2026-01-15T06:44:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T06:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/370850\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T06:44:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T06:44:12","slug":"sa20-2026-results-sunrisers-eastern-cape-thrash-joburg-super-kings-to-reach-play-offs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/370850\/","title":{"rendered":"SA20 2026 results: Sunrisers Eastern Cape thrash Joburg Super Kings to reach play-offs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sunrisers Eastern Cape confirmed their place in the SA20 play-offs with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/scorecard\/e-229133\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">61-run thrashing of Joburg Super Kings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chasing 179, Super Kings were dismissed for 117 with 11 balls remaining in their innings, extending their winless run to five matches (three defeats, two no results).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">South Africa spinner Senuran Muthusamy took 3-26, including the wickets of Wiaan Mulder and Michael Pepper in the space of three balls, while opener James Vince top-scored with 30.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Quinton de Kock struck 54 after Sunrisers were put into bat, and put on a 48-run opening partnership with Jonny Bairstow (18).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Super Kings captain Donovan Ferreira had Jordan Hermann caught for 13, then trapped de Kock lbw two balls later to leave Sunrisers 90-4.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The dismissals brought James Coles to the crease, and the English all-rounder, who would also take 2-34 in the Super Kings innings, smashed 10 fours in a 34-ball 61.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Coles, 21, added 88 for the sixth wicket alongside Tristan Stubbs (23 not out), and was only caught off the final ball of the innings as Sunrisers closed on 178-6.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The win sees Sunrisers move above Pretoria Capitals and Paarl Royals to lead the standings and confirms they will at least finish fourth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Super Kings sit fourth and know one win in their final two games will confirm a play-off spot. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sunrisers Eastern Cape confirmed their place in the SA20 play-offs with a 61-run thrashing of Joburg Super Kings.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-370850","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\/370850","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=370850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}