END OF OVER:
20 | 16 Runs 1 Wkt | PC: 129/7 (12 runs required, RR: 6.45)

  • Kyle Simmonds6 (2b)
  • Senuran Muthusamy1 (4b)
  • Joe Root4-0-32-2
  • Mujeeb Ur Rahman4-0-17-2

4.37pm: Let's hear from the presentations, starting with Player of the Match, Joe Root, after his 78 from 56 and 2 for 32: "Most important thing is to read the surface and figure out the score you need. Today was a case of being brave enough to take it deeper and you might have a better match-up down the line. Thought we did that pretty well. [Bowling?] Stay as low as I can. Lack of bounce, makes it hard to get after. Didn't think it would spin as much as that. Just have to play to the best of your ability. Then about closing it out. Jacksy played a brilliant innings and they were close to matching it. Great game of cricket. Really enjoyed my time here, want to keep putting in winning performances."

Capitals captain, Rilee Rossouw: [Toss decision] "That's hindsight. We were confident in bowling first. They got away a bit at the end but we thought 140 was a score we could chase. We've got to be better. Everyone might have an off day but if we can get better on execution we'll be in a good place. [Jacks] Nice to see him score runs. Doing it at a run a ball shows how hard it was. [Next game at home] Suits us in the highveld, hard pitches for our batters and bowlers. We're going to put on a heck of a performance back home."

Royals captain David Miller: "Very satisfying, good to get another win. Tough batting here but the guys did exceptionally well. I've never seen it or been involved in it, 20 overs of spin. Worked out well today. So we were pretty happy that we bowled second. Doing the boring, simple things well. Control the controlables. About being constant and ready. The bowlers stepped up, so it's about sticking to that and continuing the good form. [Next game] It's been a gruelling week, we've got one more on Monday and then a few days off so we can rest up. It's more just the mental side at this stage of the tournament, and looking after the body."

And that is a wrap from the winelands - but we still have more SA20 to come today. Why not head over to Cape Town, where Rashad Mahbub is preparing to guide you through MICT's game against bottom-placed Durban's Super Giants? Or if spin's your thing, go and check out the T20I taking place in Chennai. From me, for now, it's cheerio. Bye!

4.30pm: So Royals march on, while Capitals' hopes take a further hit. They still have just a single victory to their name, after being stifled in their chase of 141. Will Jacks scrapped and battled to make 56 off 53 before falling in the final over, but the visitors could not break Royals' spin supremacy. For only the fourth time in all T20, a team sent down 20 overs of spin - and Boland Park proved to be the perfect venue for such a strategy

19.6
6
Root to Simmonds, SIX, launched over deep midwicket but it won't matter - Royals win by 11 runs! Root's figures take a dent but he had done the job already, as Paarl Royals win their fifth game in a row and secure their spot in the knockouts
19.5
0
Root to Simmonds, no run, speared in for another dot
19.4
W
Root to Jacks, OUT, top-edged to the keeper! Flat, skiddy delivery and Jacks can't get hold of his slog-sweep. The ball balloons almost straight up, DK moving a few yards to his left before pouching the catch safely. And that, ladles and jellyspoons, is the game

WG Jacks c †Karthik b Root 56 (83m 53b 2x4 2x6) SR: 105.66

19.3
2
Root to Jacks, 2 runs, comes down again, launched straight up this time! But it falls safely with the fielder running in from deep midwicket
19.2
6
Root to Jacks, SIX, here we go... smoked into the crowd! Tossed up on leg and Jacks steps into a murderous slog over the deep midwicket fence
19.1
2
Root to Jacks, 2 runs, slung down on the stumps, Jacks heaves a sweep away into the gap for a couple

Root to bowl, boundaries needed

"Root bowled the 20th last week against MI Cape Town." Thanks for setting me right, Jason

END OF OVER:
19 | 2 Runs 1 Wkt | PC: 113/6 (28 runs required from 6 balls, RR: 5.94, RRR: 28.00)

  • Senuran Muthusamy1 (4b)
  • Will Jacks46 (49b)
  • Mujeeb Ur Rahman4-0-17-2
  • Joe Root3-0-16-1

Has that sealed it? Mujeeb finishes with brilliant figures of 2 for 17

18.6
0
Mujeeb Ur Rahman to Muthusamy, no run, short and skiddy, into the pads as he backs away to leg
18.5
0
Mujeeb Ur Rahman to Muthusamy, no run, fired down outside off, Muthusamy reverse-swipes and misses again
18.4
1
Mujeeb Ur Rahman to Jacks, 1 run, slapped down the ground, Jacks wants two... but Muthusamy turns down the second!
18.3
1
Mujeeb Ur Rahman to Muthusamy, 1 run, flicked out, gets the reverse away for one
18.2
0
Mujeeb Ur Rahman to Muthusamy, no run, round the wicket, aims a reverse-sweep. Mujeeb appeals optimistically for caught behind
18.1
W
Mujeeb Ur Rahman to Lion-Cachet, OUT, castled! Mujeeb scores a bullseye as Lion-Cachet aims a big slog to leg. Full, fast and dipping under the bat to hit middle and off stumps. Royals edging closer to the perfect spin defence

K Lion-Cachet b Mujeeb Ur Rahman 2 (2m 3b 0x4 0x6) SR: 66.66

Capitals need 30 from 12. Royals are 82% on Forecaster now

END OF OVER:
18 | 4 Runs 1 Wkt | PC: 111/5 (30 runs required from 12 balls, RR: 6.16, RRR: 15.00)

  • Keagan Lion-Cachet2 (2b)
  • Will Jacks45 (48b)
  • Joe Root3-0-16-1
  • Mujeeb Ur Rahman3-0-15-1

Perfect from Root, who is in line to bowl the 20th over (for what is surely the first time in his career) here

17.6
1
Root to Lion-Cachet, 1 run, slowed down, sits up wide of off for the cut... but it's just a single out into the covers
17.5
1
Root to Jacks, 1 run, fired into the pitch and Jacks can only batter a pull out to deep midwicket
17.4
1
Root to Lion-Cachet, 1 run, floated wide of leg stump, 89kph. Lion-Cachet gets low to sweep his first ball

Keagan Lion-Cachet is in at No.7

17.3
W
Root to Neesham, OUT, Neesham walks past one, and DK does the rest! The keeper shows safe hands when it matters. Fizzed down wide as Neesham went looking for a boundary. He whirled around to try to regain his ground but the bails were off in a trice

JDS Neesham st †Karthik b Root 1 (3m 4b 0x4 0x6) SR: 25

17.2
0
Root to Neesham, no run, clipped straight back to the bowler
17.1
1
Root to Jacks, 1 run, slung down on the stumps from round the wicket, worked to leg

Root is back

Kasinathan: "Miller wants to create a record by bowling all 20 overs of spin." It's only ever happened three times before in all T20, according to my colleague Sampath Bandarupalli - once in the Asian Games and a couple of times in Sri Lanka's T20 competition

END OF OVER:
17 | 9 Runs 1 Wkt | PC: 107/4 (34 runs required from 18 balls, RR: 6.29, RRR: 11.33)

  • James Neesham1 (2b)
  • Will Jacks43 (46b)
  • Mujeeb Ur Rahman3-0-15-1
  • Nqabayomzi Peter4-0-33-0

Those byes keeping Capitals above water - on exactly the same score as Royals after 17

16.6
4b
Mujeeb Ur Rahman to Neesham, 4 byes, more runs through the keeper! The drawback of all these overs of spin. Neesham shapes to reverse-sweep, misses the ball, and DK sticks out a leg in vain
16.6
2w
Mujeeb Ur Rahman to Jacks, 2 wides, fizzed down the leg side, Karthik can't take it cleanly again
16.5
1
Mujeeb Ur Rahman to Neesham, 1 run, round the wicket, pushed through on the stumps. Swatted down to long-on

James Neesham walks in

16.4
W
Mujeeb Ur Rahman to Verreynne, OUT, mistimed and taken in the deep! Verreynne cracks and Miller is the man with safe hands at wide long-on! Mujeeb has given nothing away and now he takes a wicket. Good partnership but the pressure will rocket up on the new batters from here

K Verreynne c Miller b Mujeeb Ur Rahman 30 (41m 33b 2x4 0x6) SR: 90.9

16.3
1
Mujeeb Ur Rahman to Jacks, 1 run, drops short, Jacks swings it into the leg side without timing. Just one to deep backward square leg. Capitals raise the 100
16.2
1
Mujeeb Ur Rahman to Verreynne, 1 run, flicked out full on off, slapped through midwicket

Capitals 2nd innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st9WG JacksRahmanullah Gurbaz
2nd5MJ AckermanWG Jacks
3rd9RR RossouwWG Jacks
4th77K VerreynneWG Jacks
5th8JDS NeeshamWG Jacks
6th3WG JacksK Lion-Cachet
7th12S MuthusamyWG Jacks
8th6S MuthusamyKI Simmonds