The Pretoria Capitals’ campaign in the SA20 tournament continues to be affected by the weather, after they had to settle for only two league points for the second time in four games when their duel against the Joburg Super Kings at the Wanderers was abandoned due to rain.

The visitors from Centurion batted first, after Super Kings captain, Faf du Plessis, won the toss and decided to have his team field first.

The home team got off to the perfect start as Donovan Ferreira had Rahmanullah Gurbaz slashing to Tahir at backward point for a first-ball duck with the third ball of the match.

Kyle Verreynne (39 off 31 balls) was promoted up the order and along with Will Jacks (15 off 13 balls) looked to get things back on track with a positive 47-run second wicket stand off 28 balls, as both got stuck into David Wiese, Lutho Sipamla and Hardus Viljoen.

During the final over of the powerplay, Evan Jones had Jacks trapped lbw, leaving the Capitals on 51/2.

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Wickets continued to fall as Ali bowled Rilee Rossouw (1) and Verreynne was caught by Jones off Tahir. Then Marques Ackerman (2) was caught and bowled by Ali as the visitors slipped to 69/5 after 11 overs.

Liam Livingstone (22 of 30 balls) was then joined on the pitch by Jimmy Neesham (30 off 21 balls) as they combined for a 45-run partnership.

Neesham top edged Ferreira to Ali at short third man and Livingstone, who struggled in facing 30 balls and only hitting one four in his innings, edged Wiese to keeper Jonny Bairstow as they slumped to 118 for seven in the 18th over.

Senuran Muthusamy (8) was brilliantly caught one-handed by Ferreira off Viljoen in the last over, while Migael Pretorius (10 not out) launched the last ball for a six to boost his side a touch at the death.

Just as the Super Kings batters walked to the middle for the chase, the rain started pouring down, and the umpires immediately took the players off, with the bad weather persisting, eventually leading the game to be called off.

It is doubtful whether the Capitals’ total of 138/8 would have been enough for a victory and the bowlers would have had to work hard for a victory if the rain had not intervened.

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