{"id":376318,"date":"2026-01-18T04:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T04:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/376318\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T04:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T04:00:07","slug":"sa20-2026-results-super-kings-fail-to-secure-play-off-spot-as-capitals-recover-from-7-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/376318\/","title":{"rendered":"SA20 2026 results: Super Kings fail to secure play-off spot as Capitals recover from 7-5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Joburg Super Kings missed out on the chance to secure a place in the SA20 play-offs with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/scorecard\/e-229137\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">21-run defeat<\/a> by Pretoria Capitals. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Super Kings made an incredible start, reducing Capitals to 7-5 in in 4.5 overs. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But, Dewald Brevis and Sherfane Rutherford put on 103 for the sixth wicket, as Capitals battled up to 143-6. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rutherford top-scored with 74 not out off 50 balls, while Brewis made 53 off 47 balls. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Super Kings lost regular wickets and slipped to 68-6 in the 13th over, and despite Dian Forrester making an unbeaten 44 they finished well short on 122-8.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Captain Keshav Maharaj claimed 3-15 and seamer Lizaad Williams took 3-25. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They will have a second chance to qualify when they face Paarl Royals on Monday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That game and the outcome of Sunrisers Eastern Cape v MI Cape Town on Sunday will also confirm Capitals&#8217; play-off route. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joburg Super Kings missed out on the chance to secure a place in the SA20 play-offs with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-376318","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\/376318","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=376318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}