Sunrisers Eastern Cape clinched their third SA20 title with a six-wicket victory over Pretoria Capitals despite Dewald Brevis’ stunning century for the runners-up.<\/p>\n
After being put into bat, the Capitals posted 158-7, thanks to South Africa batter Brevis smashing 101 off 56 balls, including seven sixes.<\/p>\n
However, only Bryce Parsons (30 off 30) and Sherfane Rutherford (17 off 11) also made at least double figures for Pretoria, with South Africa left-arm fast bowler Marco Jansen taking 3-10.<\/p>\n
The lack of support for the 22-year-old Brevis proved costly, as unbeaten half-centuries from Matthew Breetzke and Tristan Stubbs took Sunrisers past their target of 159 with four balls to spare at Newlands.<\/p>\n
Sunrisers have now won three of the four SA20 tournaments, and were beaten in last year’s final by MI Cape Town.<\/p>\n
They did not look likely to pull off victory in falling to 48-4 in the ninth over, with opener Jonny Bairstow dismissed for a golden duck in the first over by Lungi Ngidi.<\/p>\n
However, South Africa internationals Breetzke and Stubbs put on a brilliant unbroken stand of 114 off 65 balls for the fifth wicket.<\/p>\n
Sunrisers needed 42 from the last three overs and hit 21 off the 18th, bowled by Gideon Peters, and 12 off the penultimate, bowled by Ngidi.<\/p>\n
With nine needed off the final over, Stubbs sealed victory in emphatic style by striking two consecutive sixes off Parsons.<\/p>\n
Breetzke ended unbeaten on 68 off 49 and Stubbs 62 not out off 41.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sunrisers Eastern Cape clinched their third SA20 title with a six-wicket victory over Pretoria Capitals despite Dewald Brevis’…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-390546","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\/390546","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=390546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}