Newlands is the venue for Friday's SA20 action, a local derby between MI Cape Town and Paarl Royals and the match result betting suggests it will be a thriller
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MI Cape Town
MI Cape Town have 1 win and 2 defeats against their name. Last time out they lost their opening home game of the tournament to Sunrisers Eastern Cape by a margin of just 4 runs. The Sunrisers posted 202/2 and despite a 108 run opening stand by van der Dussen (41) and Rickelton (58) MI came up just short.
Rickleton has been in top form. He smashed 87 off 51 balls in an 11 run defeat (DLS) away to the Durban Super Giants and he made 98 of their bat first total of 243/5 against the Super Kings in Johannesburg where van der Dussen top scored 104 in a 98 run bonus point win,
This is how MI Cape Town lined up last time out
Rassie van der Dussen, Ryan Rickelton (wk), Dewald Brevis, Liam Livingstone, Kieron Pollard (c), Sam Curran, Connor Esterhuizen, George Linde, Kagiso Rabada, Beuran Hendricks, Olly Stone
Did not play: Nealan van Heerden, Chris Benjamin, Duan Jansen, Nuwan Thushara, Delano Potgieter, Grant Roelofsen, Thomas Kaber, Tom Banton
Paarl Royals
The Royals began their tournament with two matches against the Pretoria Capitals winning by 27 runs and 10 runs at Centurion where Miller posted scores of 41 and 75.
The Royals then hosted the Joburg Super Kings on Wednesday, they bowled JSK out for 134 (Ngidi 3/17) and an unbeaten 70 from Jos Buttler guided the Royals to a comfortable 7 wicket win in 14.1 overs and the Royals picked up a bonus point.
This is how Paarl Royals lined up last time out
Jason Roy, Jos Buttler (wk), Wihan Lubbe, David Miller (c), Mitchell Van Buuren, Fabian Allen, Andile Phehlukwayo, Bjorn Fortuin, Lungi Ngidi, Tabraiz Shamsi, Obed McCoy
Did not play: Dane Vilas, Ferisco Adams, Lorcan Tucker, John Turner, Evan Jones, Codi Yusuf, Keith Dudgeon, Nqaba Peter
The Betting
MI Cape Town are currently trading at around 0.91/1 to win the game and the Paarl Royals can be backed at around 0.93/1
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The Verdict
We saw 23 maximums in the MI v Sunrisers match earlier this week and whilst we have 2 more than useful bowling attacks on view here I'll side with a total match sixes count of over 15.5
Bets: Total Match Sixes over 15.5 at 0.83/1 with Betway
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