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2025 SA20 final
Final match of SA20 2025 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The 2025 SA20 final was a Twenty20 (T20) cricket match played at the Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg, on 8 February 2025 to determine the winner of the 2025 SA20.
After winning the toss, MI Cape Town elected to bat, and scored 181/8 in 20 overs against Sunrisers Eastern Cape.[1] The MI Cape Town' ultimately win by huge margin of 76 runs, securing their first SA20 title. MICT player Trent Boult was named player of the match.[2]
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Background
On 2 September 2024, the CSA announced the schedule for the 2025 season of the SA20.[3][4] 6 venues were scheduled to host the group stage. St George's Park Cricket Ground was chosen to host qualifier 1 and Centurion Park in Centurion were chosen to host eliminator and qualifier 2 whereas the Wanderers Stadium was chosen to host Grand finale.[5][6] MI Cape Town and Sunrisers Eastern Cape played the final on 8 February 2025. The MI Cape Town won the match by 76 runs.[7]
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Source: ESPNcricinfo[8]
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Match officials
- On-field umpires: Allahudien Paleker (SA) and Lubabalo Gcuma (SA)
- Third umpire: Marais Erasmus (SA)
- Reserve umpire: Stephen Harris (SA)
- Match referee: Gerrie Pienaar (SA)
- Toss: MI Cape Town won the toss and elected to bat.
Summary
MI Cape Town 181/8 (20 overs) |
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Sunrisers Eastern Cape 105 (18.4 overs) |
- MI Cape Town won the toss and elected to bat.
MI Cape Town innings
MI Cape Town (MICT) won the toss and elected to BAT. They had early good start. Both opening batters, Rassie van der Dussen and Ryan Rickelton smashed bolwer till first 5 overs. Ryan Rickelton was the first to fall, dismissed by English spin bowler Liam Dawson for 33 runs off 15 balls in the fifth over. As, Reeza Hendricks joined Rassie van der Dussen in the middle he was dismissed on duck by Richard Gleeson on the very second delivery. Later, Connor Esterhuizen and van der Dussen tried to stabilize the innings but van der Dussen was dismissed by Craig Overton on 23. This brought George Linde to the crease, alongside Esterhuizen but Linde's innings was cut short when he got dismissed by Dawson on 20 leaving them on 93 off 4. Dewald Brevis and Connor Esterhuizen quickly spearheaded the innings and made 38 and 39 respectively but were dismissed early by Marco Jansen and skipper Aiden Markram respectively. Delano Potgieter came to the crease and tried to took the innings forward, but back to back 2 wickets fell down, as skipper Rashid Khan and South African cricketer Corbin Bosch got out on golden duck to Gleeson and Jansen respectively. Delano Potgieter and Kagiso Rabada contributed 13 runs off 12 balls and 8 runs off 5 balls remaining not out respectively and thus, taking the total score tally to 181 off 9.[9][10]
Marco Jansen, Richard Gleeson and Liam Dawson got 2 wickets each while Craig Overton and Aiden Markram got 1 wicket each for 31 runs and 35 runs respectively. Andile Simelane unabled to picke up a wicket, conceding 14 runs. MICT's innings included 7 extras, with their overall run rate of 9.05 at the end.[9][11]
Sunrisers Eastern Cape innings
Sunrisers Eastern Cape (SEC) didn't had a good start to the chase. Among the two of the openers, David Bedingham got dismissed by Kagiso Rabada on last ball of second over for 5 runs only. South African batter Jordan Hermann joined the crease and soon followed after, dismissed for just 1 run off pacer Trent Boult's bowling. English batter Tom Abell and South African cricketer Tony de Zorzi stabilizes the innings and made 30 and 26 respectively before being dismissed by Linde and Rashid Khan respectively. As skipper Aiden Markram joined the crease along with middle order batsman Tristan Stubbs but Markram's innings was cut short when he got dismissed cheaply by Linde. Stubbs followed soon after, dismissed for 15 runs off Boult bowling. Later Liam Dawson and Craig Overton were also dismissed cheaply by Rabada and Bosch respectively. At last Andile Simelane and Richard Gleeson tried to stay on crease but Rabada took Gleeson wicket and Simelane remains not out and the total team tally of 105 off 10.[9][10]
MICT's bowling attack was led by Kagiso Rabada, who claimed 4 wickets for 25 runs. Both Trent Boult and George Linde took 2 wickets for 9 runs and 20 runs respectively. Rashid Khan took 1 wicket for just 19 runs, while Corbin Bosch matched Markram with 1 wickets for 27 runs. [9][11]
MICT ended with a decisive victory by 76 runs securing their first SA20 title.[12][9][11]
Scorecard
Source: ESPNcricinfo[13]
- 1st innings
Fall of wickets: 51-1 (Ryan Rickelton, 4.6 ov), 52-2 (Reeza Hendricks, 5.5 ov), 67-3 (Rassie van der Dussen, 8.1 ov), 93-4 (George Linde, 10.6 ov), 143-5 (Dewald Brevis, 15.5 ov), 161-6 (Connor Esterhuizen, 16.5 ov), 167-7 (Rashid Khan, 17.5 ov), 168-8 (Corbin Bosch, 18.2 ov)
- 2nd innings
Fall of wickets: 7-1 (David Bedingham, 1.5 ov), 8-2 (Jordan Hermann, 2.4 ov), 65-3 (Tom Abell, 9.4 ov), 68-4 (Tony de Zorzi, 10.3 ov), 74-5 (Aiden Markram, 11.2 ov), 92-6 (Tristan Stubbs, 14.5 ov), 97-7 (Marco Jansen, 16.3 ov), 101-8 (Liam Dawson, 16.5 ov), 102-9 (Craig Overton, 17.1 ov), 105-10 (Richard Gleeson, 18.4 ov)
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