The weather finally cooperated and the Pretoria Capitals achieved their first victory in the 2025 SA20 tournament on Tuesday at their home ground in Centurion, when they beat the Sunrisers Eastern Cape by six wickets.

With this bonus point victory, the Pretoria Capitals moved up to third place on the log.

The Capitals benefited from winning the toss at SuperSport Park with captain Rilee Rossouw having no hesitation in electing to bowl.

It immediately proved to be the correct decision on a surface that had been under the covers for a lengthy period with the home team’s fast bowlers gaining significant seam movement early on.

Player of the Match Eathan Bosch (2/18) landed the first blow when the Season 1 Rising Star removed Sunrisers opener Zak Crawley.

Bosch was well supported by Daryn Dupavillion (3/32), who struck with successive deliveries to send both David Bedingham and Sunrisers captain Aiden Markram back to the pavilion to leave the defending champions in tatters at 3 for 4.

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The visitors slipped deeper into trouble when Tom Abell and Tristan Stubbs also departed within two runs of each other.

There was no way back from 26/5 despite allrounder Marco Jansen’s valiant 35-ball 51 that helped the Sunrisers to at least pass their lowest-ever total to finish on 113 all out.

The Capitals stumbled initially during their run-chase with Richard Gleeson (2/31) picking up a couple of wickets for the Sunrisers, but ultimately the home team cruised home through an unbroken fifth-wicket partnership between Marques Ackerman (39 not out) and Liam Livingstone (14 not out).

“We started off well with the ball. Experience of Livingstone at the end and Marques played an excellent knock to take us past the line. On a tricky wicket, we wanted to take it as deep as we could and they played it really well to get us the bonus point,” said Capitals skipper Rilee Rossouw.

According to Rossouw, they were worried about their lines and lengths after the last game, but the bowlers stepped up and put it in the right areas.

Rossouw and his team will meet the Joburg Super Kings on Thursday (16 January) at the Wanderers for the first leg of the high-anticipated Jukskei derby.

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