Lhuan-dre Pretorius smashed an impressive 83 runs, leading the Paarl Royals to a six-wicket victory over MI Cape Town in the SA20. Pretorius's explosive innings overshadowed other batsmen's struggles on a challenging pitch, while Rassie van der Dussen's 91 for MI Cape Town nearly propelled them to a competitive total.
Lhuan-dre Pretorius continued the remarkable start to his SA20 career with an innings of 83 from just 52 balls which led the Paarl Royals to an impressive six-wicket victory in their SA20 match against Cape rivals MI Cape Town at Boland Park in Paarl on Wednesday evening.
Joe Root made a run-a-ball 15, Mitchell van Buuren 22 from 20 and captain David Miller finished the game with 24* from 20 balls but they were all unashamedly overshadowed by Pretorius. Earlier van der Dussen was measured and composed for the majority of his innings, content to score at a little over a run-a-ball until the 19th over of the innings when he exploded with a brace of fours and sixes against Kwena Maphaka to take 20 runs from the over and transform the total from ‘par’ to ‘challenging.
Left-hander George Linde’s promotion to No 4 failed to pay dividends when he missed a slog-sweep against Joe Root’s off-spin and was bowled for 10 from as many balls.
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