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Super Giants vs Eastern Cape, 12th Match at Durban, SA20, Jan 20 2024 - Ball by Ball Commentary

RESULT
12th Match, Durban, January 20, 2024, SA20
(19.2/20 ov, T:160) 163/5

Eastern Cape won by 5 wickets (with 4 balls remaining)

Player Of The Match
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simon-harmer
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The defending champions have taken DSG out of the No. 1 spot and have jumped up to No. 3 themselves. Pretoria Capitals and Joburg Super Giants will look to make jumps of their own in the Bullring on double-header Saturday. Capitals have won the toss and will bat. Hope you follow and enjoy the action there. Goodbye from here from me, Ekanth, on behalf of our scorers, Ranjith P and Binoy George.

Simon Harmer, POTM: The emotions were completely different the last time we played Durban in PE. Learning from past mistakes helped me bowl better. Coming over the wicket and allowing batters to free their arms was bad, so I cramped them for room. Just tried to rush them and take away their arms. (On Klaasen's wicket) You always know he's coming for you. He hits balls three-quarter way up the stumps out of the ground, so your margin for error is small. I tried to hit the leather and rush him a little a bit and managed to get the sticker of his bat and have him caught. SA20 is a great tournament. As a South African cricketer, to play in full stadiums, the way the comp is organised, to see everyone in here having a good time. Everything has been amazing for South African cricket, long may it continue.

Aiden Markram: Scrappy win, good individual performances got us over the line. It comes down to each individual and their character. It's great when guys want to be in the pressure situations. Whatever happens from there is okay. Jansen and Stubbs were amazing, they did it last year too. They enjoy batting with each other and are confident. For two youngsters close out the game like that is great for the country. Stubbs has worked incredibly hard, he's got ability and character. Great when guys like that do well. Fantastic off the field. He's always had great ability too. Harmer's was a special performance too with right-handers in DSG's middle order. Lots of shape, drop and he used the conditions well.

Keshav Maharaj: We bossed the game for the most of it and let it go with 50 runs to go in the end. I think we read the track spot-on, lack of execution at the end cost us. Brilliant to see Mulder capitalise on the opportunity. We knew his has something special in him. We wanted to make this our fortress, couldn't cross over the line today. but happy to have the crowd come out in numbers and give out their support.

Nisha : "Stubbs has been the ambushing predator today. Saw off Keshav Maharaj and then launched !"

4:59pm What a win! It was supposed to be a tight chase. There were big swings. DSG got two powerplay wickets. QDK running out Abell looked key. Markram had a good stand with Stubbs but Stoinis came back to dismiss the skipper and Kruger in successive balls. The running was impeccable throughout, they stole many a two by just dinking the ball into pockets. Jansen joined Stubbs, the duo saw off Maharaj and waited for the death overs. They took down Noor and Naveen, the latter's yorker plan was thwarted by Stubbs. In the end, they had four balls too many.

19.2
4
Smuts to Stubbs, FOUR runs

Sits up and is carved over cover. Stubbs takes Sunrisers home! This was short and a bit wide, Stubbs was seeing it like a beach ball and cut it over the infield

19.1
Smuts to Stubbs, no run

Makes room and slaps the shortish ball from the stumps, good stop at cover

Smuts to close it out. Stubbs has the chance to hit the winning run

end of over 199 runs
SEC: 159/5CRR: 8.36 RRR: 1.00 • Need 1 run from 6b
Tristan Stubbs62 (35b 4x4 3x6)
Marco Jansen24 (14b 2x4 1x6)
Reece Topley 4-0-29-1
Naveen-ul-Haq 3-0-42-0
18.6
1
Topley to Stubbs, 1 run

Fullish ball on the pads, worked to long-on

18.5
6
Topley to Stubbs, SIX runs

Donesy! Stubbs not missing out on the pick-up line. That's like Yuvraj Singh vs Brett Lee during the 2007 World T20 on the same ground. Fullish ball on the pads, he was deep in the crease and lifted it. Ball's gone out of the ground, literally crosses the road. Someone picked it up on the road and is showing it to the camera. Think he's giving it back

18.4
1
Topley to Jansen, 1 run

Cloths a pull but it goes to deep-mid on the bounce. Short into the pitch, Jansen had room and tried dragging it across. Got it off the bottom. Not an issue though

18.3
Topley to Jansen, no run

Full ball creates another dot, a bit of a cheer now. Jansen was making room and got followed, he drove it to the bowler's left. Stopped in the follow-through

Tense faces in the crowd

18.2
Topley to Jansen, no run

Slow into the pitch. Jansen stays leg side of the ball and tries to dab it to third, misses. It went just over the stumps

18.1
1
Topley to Stubbs, 1 run

Start by going wide on a length, which is what Topley does. Stubbs happy to slap it to deep point to turn strike

Sticking to the wide-yorker plan didn't help DSG. What'll they do now?

end of over 1820 runs
SEC: 150/5CRR: 8.33 RRR: 5.00 • Need 10 runs from 12b
Tristan Stubbs54 (32b 4x4 2x6)
Marco Jansen23 (11b 2x4 1x6)
Naveen-ul-Haq 3-0-42-0
Marcus Stoinis 4-0-27-2
17.6
1
Naveen-ul-Haq to Stubbs, 1 run

Wide on a length, guided to deep third. He keeps strike. This is all but done now

17.5
2
Naveen-ul-Haq to Stubbs, 2 runs

Punches a low fully wide outside off to cover. Two stolen again. Man, they're picking the pockets to perfection

17.4
6
Naveen-ul-Haq to Stubbs, SIX runs

Pumped up, pumped over long-off! Stubbs' fifty is up, asking rate now under six He went across this time, got a slot ball and drove it 86 metres far. Raises his bat, team-mates are chuffed. Crowd reduced to a hum

17.3
4
Naveen-ul-Haq to Stubbs, FOUR runs

Heck of a reverse! Athleticism pro max deluxe. Stubbs went square-on, knew it'd be a wide yorker. Saw it was angling away. He wasn't in line, so he swayed his upper body like it was the wind, and he swiped while swinging. Got it over short third. Not sure how that happened, great to watch though.

17.3
1w
Naveen-ul-Haq to Stubbs, 1 wide

Naveen back to nailing the wide yorker. Oh no, the line's a bit off, goes past the slicing blade. Wide given

17.2
4
Naveen-ul-Haq to Stubbs, FOUR runs

Slashed, it's in the gap. Deep-backward point can't cut it off! Stubbs stood on off, stayed in the crease rather than shuffle across despite knowing the line. The ball was full this time, not a yorker, which meant he could get underneath and scythe it over the infield

17.1
1
Naveen-ul-Haq to Jansen, 1 run

Wide yorker works this time. Length is nailed, line is just inside the tramline. Jansen steps across but all he can do is jam it to long-off

17.1
1w
Naveen-ul-Haq to Jansen, 1 wide

Wide outside off. Slower yorker goes away with the angle, Jansen sees it go past the tramline

Game's seesawing again. This stand is up to 33 off 17, 30 off 18. Just ten an over needed. Wickets needed but boundaries will make big dents too. Naveen has the ball, around to the rhb. He misses his run-up and will reload

end of over 1713 runs
SEC: 130/5CRR: 7.64 RRR: 10.00 • Need 30 runs from 18b
Marco Jansen22 (10b 2x4 1x6)
Tristan Stubbs37 (27b 2x4 1x6)
Marcus Stoinis 4-0-27-2
Noor Ahmad 4-0-39-0
16.6
1
Stoinis to Jansen, 1 run

Yorker at the stumps has been jammed to the leg side

16.5
4
Stoinis to Jansen, FOUR runs

That's pure luck. Stoinis is either puzzled or angry. Cross-seamer, pace on, was a shortish ball around head-height. Jansen swayed his head to the off side and lifted it without sight. Think he got it off the edge, ball went very fine. Fine leg was too square, which was the cause of Stoinis' worry

16.4
2
Stoinis to Jansen, 2 runs

Leg-stump yorker nailed but the batters still make two. Jansen swooshed leg side of the ball and jammed a flick to wide long-on and scooted across.

16.3
4
Stoinis to Jansen, FOUR runs

Pulled, finds the gap between deep-mid and deep square! Into the pitch and at the stumps again. Jansen, ready for it, stayed deep inside the crease and helped it along. Terrific placement to beat the converging fielders

16.2
2
Stoinis to Jansen, 2 runs

Slower one has been heaved to wide long-on. Long boundary there allows two. That was also into the pitch, going outside off and was dragged across. Jansen looks a bit tired but those long strides are helping

16.1
Stoinis to Jansen, no run

Jansen tries to slap it again. This was into the pitch and brought out the inside edge

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Eastern Cape won by 5 wickets (with 4 balls remaining)
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PR105522-0.544
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PC103614-1.085
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