The weekend could not be more interesting than this for the cricket fans, after the end of team India’s carnage against New Zealand. The fans witnessed a thrilling end of the SA20 tournament as Sunrisers Eastern Cape took the game from Pretoria Capitals ' hands by finishing the thriller with four balls left, yesterday’s final was a repeat of the first season where both teams met in the title race back in 2023.
Sunrisers Eastern Cape continued their domination in the league, till now they have played all four finals and tasted success three times except the 2025 final, where MI Cape Town outplayed them. Tristan Stubbs the Eastern Cape captain stood tall till the last with Matthew Breetzke.Notably, Stubbs got his world cup call up a few days ago replacing injured Donovan Ferreira.
In the last over the Sunrisers needed 9 runs and Stubbs hit the first ball for a sweep and it landed in the second tier of the stands, and also made the second ball travel in the cow corner for a flat six.
Match Summary
The Eastern Cape put the Capitals to bat first after winning the toss. After losing the first two wickets rapidly, Dewald Bravis came as a saviour and smashed a beautiful century in just 56 balls with the help of seven sixes. His confidence and composure at such a young age earned applause from many. With Bravis’s tough fight Capitals were put a 150+ total on the board.
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Chasing the target of 159 runs, Sunrisers also fell into trouble; they lost their prime batters in the power play where they only made 39 runs losing two wickets. The trouble increased further when wickets started to fall rapidly at a point they were standing at 48 runs losing four wickets.
Things started to change after 16 overs, where 56 runs were needed in 24 balls. Time after time the pressure increased and poor fielding by the Capitals and calm batting by the Sunrisers helped them to cross the line. Bravis won the man of the match and De Kock won the man of the tournament trophy.
Sourav Ganguly’s inclusion takes Pretoria Capitals on top
Sourav Ganguly joined the capital's family in 2019 as a cricketing advisor from that time he has served the capitals in many ways, he was appointed as the Director of Cricket of JSW Sports. In 2025 the former BCCI president returned as the president of the Cricket Association of Bengal.
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Apart from serving the administrative areas, he joined Pretoria Capitals as head coach in August 2025. With that, he became the first Indian player to serve as the head coach in a foreign league. Pretoria had a beautiful first season but after that, their stocks have decreased as they finished in the fifth position.
Sourav’s inclusion changed the mindset and suddenly Pretoria Capitals became one of the favourites to win the trophy. Under his coaching Capitals flourished and ended their tournament standing in the second position. Praising his coaching style, Indian stalwart spinner Ashwin wrote on X, “ Taking Indian coaching to the world.” Just like his success made noise in his playing days, his first coaching tenure showed a glimpse of his fearless approach.
