Sunrisers Eastern Cape and Durban Super Giants will contest the final of the SA20 at the neutral venue of Newlands on Saturday and the early betting has DSG as slight favourites.
Note all prices are correct at the time of writing but are subject to change
Sunrisers Eastern Cape
These two sides were involved in the first qualifier which was also played at Newlands on Tuesday of this week and the Sunrisers won it by 51 runs to advance straight to this final. After winning the toss and opting to bat first the Sunrisers posted 157/8 with Malan top scoring with 63. Thereafter their bowlers came to the party as the Super Giants were all out for just 106 with Baartman (4/10) and Jansen (4/16) doing the damage.
The Sunrisers Eastern Cape finished the regular season at the top of the standings with 7 wins, 1 no result and 2 defeats and they won 6 of their last 7 round robin matches.
This was how the Sunrisers lined up last time out.
Jordan Hermann, Dawid Malan, Tom Abell, Aiden Markram (c), Tristan Stubbs (wk), Patrick Kruger, Liam Dawson, Marco Jansen, Simon Harmer, Ottniel Baartman, Daniel Worrall
Did not play: Temba Bavuma, Beyers Swanepoel, Adam Rossington, Ayabulela Gqamane, Sarel Erwee, Brydon Carse, Andile Simelane, Caleb Seleka
Durban Super Giants
After losing the first qualifier the Super Giants travelled to Joburg for a second bite at the cherry against the Super Kings on Thursday and they made no mistake, coming out on top by all of 69 runs. DSG posted 211/6 with Klaasen smashing 70 off 30 balls and Wiaan Mulder hit 50 off just 23. Junior Dala then took 4 wickets as JSK were all out for 142 in reply
DSG ended the round robin with a record of 7 wins and 3 defeats and they finished second, just 1 point behind their opponents here. They lost to the Sunrisers in Durban by 5 wickets in Match 12 although they had seen SEC off in Match 2 at St. Georges by 35 runs.
This was how the Super Giants lined up last time out.
Matthew Breetzke, Quinton de Kock (wk), Bhanuka Rajapaksa, Heinrich Klaasen, JJ Smuts, Dwaine Pretorius, Wiaan Mulder, Keshav Maharaj (c), Reece Topley, Junior Dala, Naveen-ul-Haq
Did not play: Tony de Zorzi, Noor Ahmad, Bryce Parsons, Keemo Paul, Kyle Mayers, Prenelan Subrayen, Marcus Stoinis, Nicholas Pooran, Jason Smith, Richard Gleeson
The Betting
The Sunrisers are currently trading at around 21/20 with Betway to win the game and the Super Giants can be backed at around 8/10
Note all prices are correct at the time of writing but are subject to change
The Verdict
I'm open minded about the match result although if forced to pick a winner I would probably side with the Sunrisers.
For the final lets nail up a couple of bets from other markets.
Dawid Malan's 63 on this ground against this opponent on Tuesday earns him the vote to top score for the Sunrisers and I'm with the pace of Marco Jansen in their top bowler market.
Bets: Top Sunrisers Run Scorer Dawid Malan at 3/1 with Sportingbet
Top Sunrisers Wicket Taker Marco Jansen at 7/2 with Sportingbet
Note all prices are correct at the time of writing but are subject to change
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