Match Details

DSG vs MICT 16th Match, SA20 League 2024

MICT

121-920.0

Durban Super Giants won by 36 runs 🏆

DSG

20.0157-6

Match info

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Scorecard

Player of the Match

MICT - 2nd Innings

Session	Open	PASS
6 Over	50	35
10 Over	62	58
15 Over	98	92

DSG - 1st Innings

Session	Open	PASS
6 Over	52	52
10 Over	82	70
15 Over	115	97
20 Over	144	157

Commentary

Sourya: So it's time to say good night to all of you after that exciting SA20 match at Cape Town in which the home team were outplayed by DSG. We hope you enjoyed the action. It is time for me, Sourya Chowdhury, to wish you good night on behalf of me and my fellow commentator Anirudh Modi and our scorer/analyst Paras Yadav. See you soon.

George Linde (Player of the Match): "It's disappointing, I don't think I deserve it, I think one of their bowlers deserves this. Just trying to keep it simple, I know my strengths and I had a good chat with Robbie before the tournament and just sticking to that. This is my own ground and I'm just grateful for the opportunity.

We have got match winners in our squad but it's one of those days and we have to improve but we still think we can get to 3rd or 4th place."

Player of the Match: George Linde

Keshav Maharaj, Durban’s Super Giants captain: "I think this was a much-needed win.
We were in trouble at the start but Breetzke and Mulder took us out of trouble. And the bowlers put the ball in the right places.
We executed really well today, more clinical than last day.
Everyone put their hands up. Breetzke really set up the platform for Mulder and Noor Ahmad showed what he is capable of. Bonus point win was really important after the last two losses."

Kieron Pollard (MI Cape Town Captain): "They have been painful losses, but I can't put it down to the pitches. As a middle order we have to do better, as a team we can do better, obviously I can use the pitches as an excuse but both teams have to play on it.

The bowling unit did well to restrict them and get Klaasie early but we did not bat well and we need to improve, again 157 was not a big target and we could have done better. We have to look at ourselves and come up with answers as to how to improve.

Restricting them to 157 and George bowled well were the positives but we could have done better and it's not about the negatives but we need to improve and do better."

Time for the post match presentation ceremony..

Local time 9:07pm, IST 12:37 am | Sourya: Durban’s Super Giants have cantered to a well-deserved 36-run victory here at Cape Town in their SA20 match against the home team. MI Cape Town. Having been put into bat, the Super Giants reached a competitive 157/6 and then came out to defend their total with dexterity.

The home team never really got going in the chase, stifled as they were by the craft of skipper Keshav Maharaj (1/14 off 3), the guile of Noor Ahmad (3/22) and the expertise of Marcus Stoinis. On a pitch that offered considerable turn and variable bounce, the DSG bowlers bowled as a unit, with Naveen ul Haq (2/23), making the early inroad, before the spinners used the conditions superbly, while Stoinis, who missed out with the bat, brought his variations into play.

MICT were always behind the required rate and only Sam Curran (38 off 27) gave them some hope, but it was only fleeting at best, as the other big batters all faltered when it mattered as they finished on 121/9

Earlier, Kieron Pollard chose to bowl on a pitch that offered the spinners help. His team had DSG under the cosh for a while, with George Linde (2/15) and Thomas Kaber (2/20), turning things in their favor. But a brilliant rearguard attack from opener Matthew Breetzke (48 off 46) and Wiiaan Mulder (38 off 20), helped them reach a great total in the conditions. Pollard missed a trick by bowling his pacers in the late overs with spin options still in his hand, and with the last five overs going for more than 50.
This bonus-point win for DSG gives them a great platform to make it to the playoffs. MICT will need to pull up their socks in the business end of the tournament if they wish to do the same.

OVER 20

MI Cape Town

121/9

Kagiso Rabada

2(3)

Thomas Kaber

12(13)

Reece Topley

0-23(3.0)

19.6 R Topley to T Kaber

1lb LEG BYE! And with that Durban's Super Giants seals victory by 36 runs! Excellent bowling performance. Full length delivery, on the stumps, deflects off the pads to end the game.

19.5 R Topley to T Kaber

2 Length delivery, on the leg stump, pulls it away to deep forward square, and the fielder from deep mid-wicket puts in an excellent dive to save a boundary!

19.4 R Topley to T Kaber

0 Free-hit ball results in a dot, full length delivery, on the leg stump, Kaber walks across and misses on a sweep.

Reviewed for height, the last ball as he had already bowled one for the over. And it is called a no-ball.

19.4 R Topley to T Kaber

4nb FOUR! A consolation boundary for Kaber and MI Cape Town! Short of the wicket, on the stumps, tries a pull and the ball flies off the top edge and over the keeper to race away to the ropes! NO BALL has been called!

19.4 R Topley to T Kaber

WD WDE! Too short and wide from Topley, extra run signaled.

19.3 R Topley to K Rabada

1 Length delivery, on the stumps, drills it to long on for a single.

Junoe Dala finally drops one. Tough chance at deep point with him running in and diving. It won't hurt them in this match.

19.2 R Topley to T Kaber

1 IN THE AIR! And dropped! Ah! The match could have been over right here, but DSG would not mind. Slower short of the wicket delivery, on the off stump, slashes it to deep cover where the fielder comes running and puts in a dive but takes his eyes off the ball at the last second and does not make contact.