{"id":372571,"date":"2026-01-16T03:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T03:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/372571\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T03:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T03:53:08","slug":"sa20-2026-results-ottneil-baartman-dominates-as-royals-beat-capitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/372571\/","title":{"rendered":"SA20 2026 results: Ottneil Baartman dominates as Royals beat Capitals"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paarl Royals moved top of the SA20 and secured their place in the play-offs with a six-wicket thrashing of Pretoria Capitals<\/a>, powered by a superb bowling display from seamer Ottneil Baartman.<\/p>\n

Capitals were blown away by Baartman, who finished with remarkable figures of 5-16 after claiming a hat-trick of lower-order batters.<\/p>\n

After bowling out their opponents for 127, Royals raced to their target inside 16 overs thanks to contributions of 46 and 41 from Rubin Hermann and Dan Lawrence.<\/p>\n

Capitals had won the toss and chosen to bat, but were soon in trouble after Baartman removed opener Connor Esterhuizen and trapped England batter Jordan Cox lbw for a golden duck.<\/p>\n

The 32-year-old wasn’t able to secure a hat-trick on that occasion, but he returned to dismiss Andre Russell, Lizaad Williams and Lungi Ngidi with the first three balls of the 19th over.<\/p>\n

Hardus Viljoen, who had previously taken the wicket of Capitals’ top-scorer Sherfane Rutherford (29), then had Keshav Maharaj caught off the first ball of the final over as Capitals lost their last four wickets for a single run.<\/p>\n

Openers Lhuan-dre Pretorius and Asa Tribe were dismissed for one and five respectively by Williams early in Royals’ response, but the pairing of Hermann and Lawrence, who put on a 106-run stand<\/a> in Royals’ last outing against Durban’s Super Giants, added 52 for the third wicket to steady nerves at Centurion.<\/p>\n

Hermann provided much of the firepower in that partnership, but Lawrence took over when his partner was caught by off the bowling of Gideon Peters, forming a 57-run pairing with David Miller (28 not out).<\/p>\n

Lawrence was bowled by Ngidi with the target in sight, before new batter Sikandar Raza scored a winning single two balls later to secure victory with 29 deliveries to spare.<\/p>\n

Royals move above their opponents and former leaders Sunrisers Eastern Cape, topping the standings on number of wins.<\/p>\n

Capitals need a point from their final game against Joburg Super Kings to join them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paarl Royals moved top of the SA20 and secured their place in the play-offs with a six-wicket thrashing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-372571","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\/372571","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=372571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}