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Pretoria Capital players celebrate their win in the SA20 on Monday.
After being sent in to bat, Will Jaques (62 off 27 balls) and Kusal Mendis (29 off 19 balls) fought their way through with an 88-run partnership after seven overs.
Cape Town: Pretoria Capitals put the daylights out between themselves and five other SA20 teams after claiming a 52-run win over second-placed MI Cape Town at Newlands.
After being sent in to bat, Will Jacks (62 off 27 balls) and Kusal Mendis (29 off 19 balls) eased their way through with an 88-run partnership after seven overs.
The pace of the innings quickened when Rashid Khan (3/16) and Odion Smith (2/27) took three wickets between them in 17 balls.
Theunis de Bruyne (36 off 26 balls) steadied the innings before some quickfire from James Neesham (22* off 18 balls) took the Pretoria-side to 182/8 at the end of the innings .
MI Cape Town’s chase got off to a rocky start when they lost Ryan Rickelton (11 off 11 balls) and Sam Curran (22 off 18 balls) by the eighth over.
Devald Brewis (46 from 30 balls) and Rassie van der Dussen (24 from 25 balls) got the innings back on track with a 47-run partnership, but the former fell to Enrich Nortje (3/22) The Capitals were well over the top. ,
This dismissal proved crucial as MI Cape Town’s innings snowballed, losing their remaining seven wickets for just 29 runs.
Pretoria Capitals captain Wayne Parnell claimed figures of 3/14 as he proved just how lethal he can be at the death.
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