SA20 2025: Two-time SA20 champions Sunrisers Eastern Cape secured their first win this season by defeating Durban Super Giants by 58 runs in the match played at Kingsmead on Friday. Sunrisers team, which had suffered a hat-trick of defeats, won this match with a bonus point but they are still at the last position with one win in 4 matches.
The Aiden Markram-led team won the toss and elected to bat first and scored a respectable score of 165 runs losing 5 wickets in the allotted 20 overs. Jack Crawley provided the early momentum for Sunrisers with 34 runs from 29 balls. At the same time, his partner Tom Abel scored 57 runs in 39 balls. Marco Jensen, who had scored a half-century in the previous match, again scored an unbeaten 36 off 26 balls to take Sunrisers to 165/5.
Mystery spinner Noor Ahmed was the most successful bowler for Durban. He gave only 24 runs in his quota of four overs and took 4 wickets. After this, Super Giants also made a good start while chasing the target of 166 runs. Openers Bryce Parsons and Matthew Britzke added 40 runs for the first wicket.
This pair broke when Parsons was run out after scoring 23 runs in 21 balls and as soon as this opening pair broke, Durban's train derailed and after this they were never able to recover and the entire team was all out after scoring 107 runs in 18.1 overs. Left-arm spinner Liam Dawson took advantage of the spin-friendly conditions at Kingsmead to dismiss Kane Williamson (3) and Bretzke (21). He took 2 wickets for 18 runs in his four overs. Dawson was also well supported by fellow spinner Simon Harmer and took the big wicket of this season's MVP Heinrich Klaasen and played a key role in taking his team to victory.
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