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Sunrisers Eastern Cape go back to back to claim second SA20 title

Fast bowler Marco Jansen picked up 5 wickets within the match to assist his group, SEC, beat DSG within the ultimate at Newlands.

The Sunrisers Eastern Cape are the champions of the SA20 competitors — for the second 12 months in a row.

After topping the log after the league section, the Sunrisers of Aiden Markram went on to win their qualifier earlier within the week in Cape Town (additionally towards Durban’s Super Giants) and on Saturday, additionally at Newlands, they hammered DSG by 89 runs to seize a second title in as a few years.

The Sunrisers gained the toss and from the second they determined to bat first they took cost of the match, and ultimately coasted to victory.

Their win was constructed on a superb batting efficiency with high order batters Jordan Hermann (42 off 26) and Tom Abell (55 off 34) laying the muse earlier than Markram (42 off 26) and Tristan Stubbs (56 off 30) bought their group to a complete of 204/3 in 20 overs.

Reece Topley (1/32 in three) and Keshav Maharaj (2/33 in 4) had been the one wicket-takers for the group from Durban.

Bowling

The Super Giants, who had been so good in ending second on the log and beating the Joburg Super Kings within the second qualifier on Thursday, had been on the back foot from the off of their run chase, after dropping three wickets for simply seven runs.

Quinton de Kock, Jon-Jon Smuts and Bhanuka Rajapaksa had been despatched back to the changeroom after early bursts by Daniel Worrall and Marco Jansen, who grabbed one and two wickets respectively early on.

Wiaan Mulder (38 off 22) and opener Matthew Breetzke (18 off 27) tried to resurrect the innings however after they had been dismissed by Simon Harmer and Ottniel Baartman to go away DSG on 63/5 it was left to Heinrich Klaasen to assist get their group to their goal.

But for as soon as Klaasen failed, being trapped LBW by Baartman for a first-ball duck, and with that DSG’s possibilities of successful a primary title had been left hanging by a thread.

Dwaine Pretorius, with 28 off 17, hit a couple of huge photographs in direction of the top, as did Junior Dala, however DSG had been all out for 115 and a straightforward win by Markram’s “Orange Army”.

Jansen completed with a superb 5/30 off his 4 overs, Worrall with 2/15 off 4 and Baartman 2/17 off three.


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