SA20: Dewald Brevis of CSK and Sherfane Rutherford of MS excel for the Pretoria Capitals
In the ongoing SA20 league on Wednesday, December 31,SA20: Dewald Brevis of CSK and Sherfane Rutherford of MS excel for the Pretoria Capitals Sherfane Rutherford, a recent addition to the Mumbai Indians, and Dewald Brevis of the Chennai Super Kings demonstrated their finishing skills for Pretoria Capitals against MI Cape Town.
Despite having a sluggish tournament start, Brevis had a courageous innings against MI Cape Town. He scored 36 runs off of just 13 balls and stayed undefeated. He hit at a remarkable rate of 276.92, including one four and four sixes.
However, Rutherford, who paid ₹2.6 crore to join the Mumbai Indians prior to the 2026 Indian Premier League, scored an incredible 47 runs off of 15 balls. He maintained an incredible strike rate of 313.33 while smashing six sixes.
In the last overs, both hitters pulled together an incredible, undefeated collaboration, accumulating 86 runs in just 27 balls and totally changing the innings’ direction. The Pretoria Capitals achieved an incredible total of 220/5 as a result of their hard work. Kagiso Rabada claimed two wickets for MI Cape Town, but his stats were costly as he gave up 48 runs in four overs.
In response, Rassie van der Dussen (28), Ryan Rickelton (33), Reeza Hendricks (18), and Nicholas Pooran (25) helped MI Cape Town get off to a respectable start. But Rutherford used the ball to completely change the course of the match, taking four vital wickets as he tore through MI Cape Town’s batting lineup. In just 14.2 overs, the squad was dismissed for just 135 runs.
Vaibhav Suryavanshi’s spectacular knock grabs the show in New Delhi.
As the Vijay Hazare Trophy 2025–26’s first phase drew to a close, a number of outstanding performances were seen in various games. But against Arunachal Pradesh, 14-year-old Vaibhav Suryavanshi had the most memorable innings, scoring 190 runs off of just 84 balls.
With 16 fours and 15 sixes throughout his astounding knock, the little hitter had an amazing strike rate of 226.19. Former Indian international cricketer Ravichandran Ashwin praised Suryavanshi for this performance.
Ashwin did, however, also note that the competition was unfair and offered his opinions on what has to be done to help teams like Arunachal Pradesh.
“Vaibhav Suryavanshi receives thunderous acclaim. However, I have a query once again. Some teams’ quality differs greatly from one another. There isn’t much competition in some games because they are so biased. This is not the perfect competition. Vaibhav is doing a great job, so congratulations. But what effect will these games have on the confidence of teams like Arunachal Pradesh if we really want to improve them? On his YouTube channel, Ashwin stated.
Before the T20 World Cup, Kagiso Rabada puts an end to doubts with a furious comeback.
- With the T20 World Cup scheduled to start in five weeks, worries over Kagiso Rabada’s preparation were growing because he hadn’t played in a match since the Rawalpindi Test almost 10 weeks prior. But such worries were soon allayed.
- With his signature back-of-a-length delivery, Rabada made an amazing comeback, tricking Bryce Parsons into playing it gently. After that, he dismissed Parsons with a full-length ball that swung away from his attempted drive. The remainder of the over was nearly perfect: Rabada gave up just two runs, cleverly changed his length, and shocked Will Smeed with a crisp bouncer.
- Hope hit a huge six off a slower ball in his second over, but Rabada swiftly recovered, conceding just 12 runs in his first two overs.
- The batsman edged one delivery over slip in the sixteenth over after the Hope-Lubbe combination was broken and Lubbe’s aggressive aim drew Rabada back. Then he tried to hit across the line, but his top edge sailed in the direction of mid-on. Rabada ran to make the catch but stopped when he saw that Reeza Hendricks was in a better position as she ran in from long on.
- Rabada might have finished with four or five wickets, but in the last over, Nicholas Pooran spilled a catch of Rutherford and Corbin Bosch dropped a challenging, spinning attempt of Brevis. In the end, Rabada finished with tIndia Women vs Sri Lanka Womenwo wickets for forty-eight runs
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