Hendricks, Brevis smash MI Cape Town to imposing total

Big half centuries from the bats of Reeza Hendricks and Dewald Brevis helped MI Cape Town smash their way to an imposing score of 222/3 in their 20 overs in their Betway SA20 match-up at SuperSport Park in Centurion on Friday night.

Hendricks cracked an unbeaten 77 off 44 balls, hitting four fours and five sixes, while Brevis powered his way to an unbeaten 73 off 32, launching six fours and six sixes, as they shared in a monster 142-run fourth wicket partnership to set them up with a massive total.

The Capitals won the toss and decided to bowl first, but were unable to stem the flow of runs from the start as MI CT got off to a flyer and just kicked on from there.

The MI CT innings got off to a great start thanks to some lusty striking from the in form Ryan Rickelton, 22 of 13 (4x4; 1x6), and Rassie van der Dussen, 30 off 20 (1x4; 3x6) as they raced to 31/0 after three overs.

Tom Rogers got the breakthrough in the fifth over, getting the ball to nip in and beat the swing of Rickelton to castle him, with the score 45/1, which moved to 54/1 by the end of the powerplay.

First ball after the powerplay saw the back of Van Der Dussen as he launched Gideon Peters out to deep midwicket where Steve Stolk settled under it and took the catch.

Hendricks and Colin Ingram, 16 off 12 (2x4; 1x6), combined for a 26-run third wicket stand, which included Ingram smashing Senuran Muthusamy out of the park, only to fall next ball, with the bowler taking a top one handed grab, leaving them on 80/3.

This brought Brevis to the crease, and having reached the halfway stage on 87/3, it was then the Hendricks and Brevis show over the second half of the innings as they absolutely tucked into the Capitals bowlers.

Migael Pretorius in particular came in for some tap, after his third over went for 15 runs, his 12th and 17th overs disappeared for 19 runs each, and his 19th over was thumped for 16, leaving him with unflattering figures of 0/69 in his four overs.

He wasn’t the only one to get hammered, as the last over from Rogers was clubbed for 18 runs which left him with figures of 1/54 from his four, while Peters ended on 1/43, and only spinners Will Jacks, 0/22, and Muthusamy, 1/34, managed to go at under 10 an over.

The Capitals now face an incredibly steep chase to win the match and stay in the playoff hunt in this season’s SA20.

PRETORIA CAPITALS: Will Jacks, Steve Stolk, Will Smeed, Kyle Verreynne (capt, wk), Marques Ackermann, Ashton Turner, Keagan Lion-Cachet, Senuran Muthusamy, Tom Rogers, Migael Pretorius, Gideon Peters

MI CAPE TOWN: Ryan Rickelton (wk), Rassie van der Dussen, Reeza Hendricks, Colin Ingram, Dewald Brevis, Delano Potgieter, Corbin Bosch, Azmatullah Ormazai, Rashid Khan (capt), Trent Boult, Matthew Potts