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Best performances - Batsmen

JE Root
JE Root
78(56) 8x4 - 2x6
Control %70%
  • Productive Shot
  • pull
  • 20 runs
  • 2x4 - 1x6
1 12 18 18 8 5 0 16
WG Jacks
56(53) 2x4 - 2x6
Control %78%
  • Productive Shot
  • flick
  • 9 runs
  • 0x4 - 1x6
0 3 9 0 12 7 14 11

Best performances - Bowlers

Mujeeb Ur Rahman
Mujeeb Ur Rahman
O4
M0
R17
W2
Eco4.25
RHB
OFFLEG
1W
1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
BC Fortuin
BC Fortuin
O4
M1
R20
W2
Eco5
RHB
OFFLEG
1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
1W

Scorer: Ranjith P | Commentator: Alan Gardner

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

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