In a thrilling encounter on New Year’s Eve at Newlands Stadium in Cape Town, pretoria capitals crushed mi cape town Defeated by 85 runs in the 8th match of SA20 2025-26 On Wednesday. Batting first, Capitals posted a strong score of 220/5 on the back of explosive finishing dewald brevis And Sherfane RutherfordEarlier, their bowlers bowled out the host team for just 135 runs in 14.2 overs. The win marked the Capitals’ first points of the season, and opened their account on the points table with the bonus-point win.​
Competition to hit a six! Dewald Brewis, Sherfane Rutherford dismantle MI Cape Town attack
Brewis and Rutherford made the death overs a spectacle, hitting 10 sixes in their combined unbeaten innings of 86 off 27 balls to take the Capitals past 200. Vihaan Lubbe While he scored 60 runs (7 fours, 2 sixes) in 36 balls. shy hope Contributed 45 runs (3 fours, 2 sixes) off 30, which helped the score reach 100 runs in 11.5 overs despite early setbacks with three wickets falling for 39 runs in the powerplay. Fireworks started in the 18th over. Corbin BoschWhere Brewis cut a short wide ball over third man for six, then hit a low fulltoss straight for another maximum.
Chaos was at its peak in the last over dwayne pretoriusBrevis had already hit a boundary, but Rutherford exploded with four straight sixes: a wideish cutter over long-off, a slower bouncer over square leg, a yorker attempted over deep cover for 74 metres, and a length ball hammered straight, This sequence of six consecutive sixes in the overs by Bosch and Pretorius silenced the home crowd, with Pretorius scoring 36 runs without taking any wicket in two overs, as Kagiso Rabada And George Linde Sitting out the crucial stage. Despite the penalty for slow over rate, Capitals scored 200 runs in 19.2 overs and set a challenging score.
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Rutherford’s explosive all-round bravery
After a quiet start to the tournament, Rutherford stole the show by earning Player of the Match for his unbeaten 47 runs (all sixes) from 15 balls at a strike rate of 313.33. His Caribbean flair ruined MI’s Cape Town chase; Starting with 63/1 powerplay, the hosts reached 50 runs in 4.6 overs Ryan Rickelton33 more Rassie van der DussenThe score was 28, but Rutherford took 4 wickets for 24 runs in three overs.
he rejected reeza hendricks (18), George Linde (2), Pretorius (8), and Rabada (4), were all out, reducing MICT from 100/2 to 135. Keshav Maharaj including 3/28 grab nicholas puran (25, 4Ă—6). Tymal Mills (1/27) and lizad williams (1/19) backed up as MICT lost eight wickets for 35 runs after a strategic timeout at 125/8. Rutherford’s dual impact—finishing the innings and leading the bowling—confirmed the Capitals’ dominance, boosting their SA20 campaign amid a competitive table where MI slipped after the Cape Town defeat.
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