Dewald Brevis, Bryce Parsons Take The Limelight As Pretoria Capitals Thrash Sunrisers Eastern Cape To Enter SA20 Final

A day before the SA20 Season 4 Qualifier 1 against Sunrisers Eastern Cape (SEC), Pretoria Capitals (PC) captain Keshav Maharaj hoped for a better show from his top order to take some pressure off Dewald Brevis and Sherfane Rutherford. Bryce Parsons, 24, answered that call - and how. The youngster slammed his first half-century of the season to take his team to the final. That was, however, only half the story, as Parsons had earlier scalped three wickets as well.

Chasing 171 on a slow Durban track, Parsons (60 off 44 balls) and Dewald Brevis (75* off 38 balls) did not let Shai Hope's early departure affect PC, as they batted SEC out of the game. For the third wicket, the duo shared 91 runs off 60 balls to chase down the target in 18.3 overs.

Earlier, Sunrisers' innings had every element of a cracker but ended as quite a damp squib. Had it not been for James Cole's late cameo (17 off 4 balls), the former champions may well have fallen short of the 160-mark.

At the top, Quinton de Kock added 19 runs to climb to the top of the highest run-getters' list in SA20 Season 4 (347 runs), but it was the second-wicket partnership between Jonny Bairstow (50 off 36 balls) and Jordan Hermann (41 off 30 balls) that laid the platform for SEC to fire. What followed, however, was the complete opposite.

From 112/1 in the 12th over, SEC slid to 150/6 by the 19th. Bryce Parsons' left-arm spin was too much to handle. The PC all-rounder returned with three wickets from three overs, all of them between the 15th and 19th overs, effectively putting the brakes on SEC. He wasn't done yet, as he returned in the second innings to haunt SEC further.

It's not all over for SEC, as they will face the winner of the Eliminator between Joburg Super Kings and Paarl Royals in Qualifier 2 for a place in the final