Overview
- Durban’s Super Giants set a league-record 232/5 at Newlands and beat MI Cape Town by 15 runs, ending the champions’ home unbeaten streak from last season.
- Eathan Bosch removed Ryan Rickelton at the start of the final over to close out the chase after Rickelton’s 113 had pushed MI Cape Town to a tournament-record second-innings 217.
- Sunrisers Eastern Cape routed Paarl Royals for 49, the lowest total in SA20 history, to win by 137 runs, led by Anrich Nortje’s 4-13 in his comeback outing.
- Joburg Super Kings beat Pretoria Capitals by 22 runs in Centurion, with Duan Jansen’s career-best 4-23 triggering a collapse in Sourav Ganguly’s coaching debut.
- The Newlands opener produced 449 runs with 25 sixes and 40 fours, and a spectator earned R2 million for a clean one‑handed catch off a Rickelton six.