Pretoria Capitals host MI Cape Town in the SA20 at Centurion on Thursday and the play off hopes of both these sides have been looking increasingly remote
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Pretoria Capitals
The Capitals were in action against the log leading Durban Super Giants at Kingsmead on Tuesday and they went down by 8 runs. DSG posted 174/9 batting first (Dupavillon 3/25 Muthusamy 3/26) and despite 41 from Will Jacks PC fell behind the asking rate and the lower order had too much to do.
The Capitals have now won 2 and lost 5 of their matches with 1 no result and with just 10 log points they are fifth in the standings with this the first of two remaining matches against MICT. The result of Tuesday's match between JSK (13 points) and the Sunrisers (19 points) will have a say on what the Capitals need from these last 2 matches if they are to squeeze into the play offs.
This is how the Capitals lined up last time out
Philip Salt (wk), Will Jacks, Kyle Verreynne, Rilee Rossouw, Colin Ingram, Colin Ackermann, Senuran Muthusamy, Eathan Bosch, Wayne Parnell (c), Adil Rashid, Daryn Dupavillon
Did not play: Shane Dadswell, Corbin Bosch, James Neesham, Paul Stirling, Theunis de Bruyn, Hardus Viljoen, Migael Pretorius, Matthew Boast, Steve Stolk
MI Cape Town
With just 9 log points MI Cape Town come into the game at the foot of the standings and they have won 2 and lost 6 of their matches.
They won 2 of their first 4 games but have since suffered 4 successive defeats. Most recently MI were interrupted by rain when batting first at home to JSK and the match was reduced to 8 overs a side. MICT posted 80/3 (Pollard 33 of 10 inc 4 sixes) but JSK crashed that target off in no time without losing a wicket.
MI will clash with the Capitals again in Cape Town on Saturday.
This is how MI Cape Town lined up last time out
Rassie van der Dussen, Ryan Rickelton (wk), Liam Livingstone, Sam Curran, Kieron Pollard (c), Dewald Brevis, Delano Potgieter, George Linde, Thomas Kaber, Kagiso Rabada, Nuwan Thushara
Did not play: Connor Esterhuizen, Olly Stone, Beuran Hendricks, Tom Banton, Grant Roelofsen, Duan Jansen, Chris Benjamin, Nealan van Heerden
The Betting
Most bookies have the Capitals as 8/10 favourites for this one but at the time of writing if you shop around you can get even money against either side.
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The Verdict
The loser of this match will almost certainly be eliminated and I'm looking to the bigger hitters on both sides to come to the party and push me over the total sixes line.
Bets: Total match sixes over 13.5 at 17/20 with BoyleSports
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