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Capitals add to Sunrisers misery

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The Pretoria Capitals handed Sunrisers Eastern Cape their second bonus point defeat of SA20 Season 3- by 6- wickets on Tuesday at Centurion.

Capitals’ captain, Rilee Rossouw, won the toss and elected to bowl at the short of form back-to-back champions. That decision proved justified when the men in orange slipped to 4/3 inside two overs and then 50/6 before Marco Jansen and Simon Harmer finally established a meaningful partnership.

It was, as both teams said, a tricky surface after being under cover for almost a week due to rain, making the toss crucial.

“Guys couldn’t really walk in and hit the ball from the start,” said the Capitals’ Daryn Dupavillon.

“You saw it with (Marco) Jansen, he took his time for the first 20 balls and then got the pace of the wicket.”

Jansen top scored in the match with 51, and this was the only reason the Sunrisers were able to make the total past 100.

The Sunrisers are leaning heavily on how well they recovered in the first season of SA20 as a reason not to panic about their poor start this year. They lost their first two matches in 2023 before going on to win the competition.

“We haven’t started well in previous editions and managed to find a way, and hopefully we can get into that sort of form and confidence in the next couple of weeks. We are running out of time, and we need to make [a] play,” said the Sunrisers’ assistant coach, Russell Domingo. Written by Ntsako Mkhari

Written by: Lindiwe Mabena

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