The captain of Joburg Super Kings in SA20 was former South African batsman Faf Duplessis. He played in the first few matches, but then got injured after a few matches and was ruled out of the tournament. After this Donavan Ferreira took over the responsibility of captaincy. However, as the playoffs approached, he also got injured. Even storming batsman Riley Rossow was unavailable due to injury. In such a situation, a third captain came forward and got Joburg Super Kings a ticket for the playoffs of South Africa’s T20 league SA20. For the fourth consecutive season, the Joburg Super Kings have qualified for the playoffs.
Zimbabwe needs 46 runs from 47 balls at an average of 5.87 per over.
Joburg Super Kings, under the captaincy of James Vince, defeated Paarl Royals by 44 runs in their last league match and secured a ticket for the playoffs. Paarl Royals have also reached the playoffs, as they won 5 matches. At the same time, JSK made it to the top 4 by winning four matches. Joburg Super Kings had lost four out of the last six matches and two matches had no result due to bad weather. In such a situation, Joburg Super Kings was in danger of being out of the tournament. On top of that, two captains and one batsman were also not available. However, in the last league match, Joburg Super Kings had scored 166 runs losing 5 wickets in 20 overs. The score was not very big, but the bowlers did wonders. Les Du Plooy scored 54 runs in 27 balls. He hit 5 fours and 3 sixes. 39 runs were scored by Neil Timmers and 27-27 runs were scored by Michael Keel Pepper and Matthew de Villiers. Whereas, for Paarl Royals, 45 runs were scored by Dan Lawrence and 32 runs were scored by Luan Dre Pretorius. Prenelon Subrayan took 3 wickets and Nandre Berger and Imran Tahir took 2 wickets each for Joburg Super Kings. Now there will be an eliminator match between these two teams, the team that wins the eliminator will have to face the team that lost Qualifier 1 in Qualifier 2. Sunrisers Eastern Cape and Pretoria Capitals have also qualified for the playoffs, and will face off in Qualifier 1.
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