Match Report: Sunrisers Eastern Cape v Durban’s Super Giants

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Gqeberha: Season 4, Match 21 in the SA20 series between Sunrisers Eastern Cape and Durban’s Super Giants started at 15h30 on Sunday 11 January 2026.

At the start of the match the Sunrisers Eastern Cape were top of the leaderboard on 19 Points.

Quick Quizz: “How do you know St Georges Park will be full?” “When it takes me 15 minutes to get to the media room from home instead of the normal 8!”

The standings as at 11 January 2026:

Sunrisers Eastern Cape – 19
Joburg Super Kings – 17
Pretoria Capitals – 15
Paarl Royals – 15
MI Cape Town – 10
Durban’s Super Giants- 10

Toss:

Tristan Stubbs (Sunrisers Eastern Cape) and Aiden Markram (Durban’s Super Giants) stolled out to the wicket for the toss. SEC won the toss and elected to bat first.

Sunrisers Innings:

First Over: Opening the batting for the SEC were De Kock and Baistow, with De Kock facing Kwena Maphaka. First runs from a wide on the 3rd ball followed by a single on the next. First four of the match on the 5th ball from Bairstow. 8/0 – De Kock (1), Bairstow (6)

Second Over: This over saw De Kock and Bairtsow accelerate with two sixes off the bowling of Narine. 20/0 – De Kock (12) Bairstow (7)

Third Over: WICKET – No 62, Coetzee, appears to bring the heat and drops Bairstow with a wild swing to mid off – caught and walks on 11 runs. Next batter – Breetzke. 26/1 De Kock (13) Breetzke (1)

Fourth Over: WICKET – Narine to De Kock who punched, groped, swung and missed until frustration set in and he sent a sitter of a catch to walk. Next batter – Jordan Hermann. 26/2 Breetzke (1) Hermann (0)

Fifth Over: Another slow disappointing over as the Sunrisers close it on 28/2 Breetzke (2) Hermann (1)

Sixth Over: Hermann gets Narine back as he handles the tricky spinner with aplomb. 38/2 Breetzke (2) Hermann (11)

Seventh Over: New Bowler – Noor. Breetzke survives an LBW appeal. Another slow disappointing over for SEC as they close out on 40/2 Breetzke (6) Hermann (12) projected score 121.

Eighth Over: New Bowler – Liam Livingstonen, and Hermann drops TWO sixes in succession and then a four off of the unlucky spinner. 55/2 (Breetzke (3) Hermann (27)

Ninth Over: And the 243rd six of the season is sent 76m to Castle Corner by home boy Breetzke off of the bowling of Noor. 64/2 Breetzke (10) Hermann (29)

Tenth Over: WICKET – New Bowler – Maphaka who claims the vital wicket of Jordan Hermann on his second ball bowled. Hermann wals with a decent 29 to his tally. New batter – Tristan Stubbs. 68/3 Breetzke (13) Stubbs (1)

Eleventh Over: Only 3 runs from this Livingstone over. 71/3 Breetzker (15) Stubbs (2)

Twelfth Over: Coetzee from the Duck Pond End. A very economical over. 75/3 Breetzke (16) Stubbs (3)

Thirteenth Over: WICKET – Bowler Livingstone I presume puts paid to Breetzke’s inning – caught off of a high ball and walks on 20 runs. Next Batter Marcj Jansen who casually reverse sweeps his first ball for four. 85/4 Stubbs (4) Jansen (5)

Fourteenth Over: WICKET – Noor on fire as he claims Jansen’s (6) wicket. Next Batter – Gregory. 88/5 Stubbs (5) Gregory (1)

Fifteenth Over: Greory overtakes Captain Stubbs – a great four puts him on 7 runs. 96/5 Gregory (7) Stubbs (6)

Sixteenth Over: 100 Up – Sunrisers reach 100 runs after 15.4 overs. 101/5 Stubbs (10) Gregory (9)

Seventeenth Over: An economical over for Narine as the SEC add 4 runs to their total. 105/5 Stubbs (11) Gregory (11)

Eighteenth Over: 14 runs from the over – Maphaka gifts Stubbs a four on the 2nd ball of the over. Gregory finishes the over off with a six. 119/5 Stubbs (16) Gregory (18)

Nineteenth Over: RUNS GALORE – Finally the batters get he wake up call with Stubbs stroking two fours off two balls and then a sprint for two runs on the third ball another sprint for two runs off of the 4th ball (pushing the run rate above 7) followed by another four on ball 5 and, just for fun, another four on the final ball. 139/5 Stubbs (36) Gregory (18)

Twentieth Over: BATTLE OF THE GIANTS – Maphaka to Stubbs. SIX on the 2nd ball, NO BALL, Free Hit, 2 runs off 2nd ball, dropped catch and 3 runs on 3rd ball, four for Gregory on 4th ball, dot on 5th ball, 158/5 Stubbs (47) Gregory (25)

Durban’s Super Giants need 159 runs off of 120 balls to win.

In order to score a bonus point the SEC have to restrict DSG to 126 runs or less.

Durban’s Super Giants Innings:

First Over: Markram and Ackermann opened the batting and faced Marco Jansen. Markram opened the score with a four from the 4th ball, and a single from the fifth. 5/0 Markram (5) Ackerman (0)

Second Over: DEVASTATING – Speedster Milne gifted a four to Markram off his first ball and then off his 3rd ball, AND his fourth ball, AND his fifth ball, AND his sixth ball. 25/0 Markram (26) Ackerman (0)

Third Over: Jansen returns to bowl. DSG continue to slaughter the attack. 37/0 Markram (24) Ackerman (11)

Fourth Over: First over for Rathayake a bit of a disaster as DSG continue to pile on the runs. Two fours off the first 2 balls. 48/0 Markram (25) Ackerman (21)

Fifth Over: WICKET – New Bowler – Muthusamy puts paid to Markram (29) on his 2nd delivery as lanky Jansen takes the catch on the Boundary just below the media room. New batter – Buttler. 51/1 (Ackerman (23) Buttler (1)

Sixth Over: AN EXPENSIVE OVER – Not an auspicious start for Milne as Ackermann strokes him for six off the 1st ball of the over, then a four, a dot, a four, a wide, a wide, a dot, a four ending on 71/1 Ackerman (41) Buttler (1)

Seventh Over: Muthusamy returns to slow things down a bit as the SEC reel from the DSG attack. Graet disappointmet as SEC lose the chance to catch Ackerman out and send him home. 76/1 Ackerman (44) Buttler (3)

Eighth Over: New Bowler Nortje (presently number 3 on the bowlers list of the season) tries (and succeeds) to slow down the DSG run race down by taking the wicket of Ackerman – clean bowled. New batter – Narine. 80/2 Buttler (5) Narine (0)

Ninth Over: WICKET – New Bowler, Lewis Gregory sends Narine home for a duck – caught on the boundary by Herman. New batter – Heinrich Klaasen. 82/3 Buttler (6) Klaasen (1)

Tenth Over: Not such a good over for Nortje as DSG raced to 101/3 Buttler (17) Klaasen (8)

Eleventh Over: BEATEN? This is the over that SEC started looking like a defeated team. DSG climbed to needing 53 runs off of 52 balls. Over ended on 108/3 Buttler (20) Klaasen (10)

Twelfth Over: WICKET – And Rathayake gives hope as he takes Klaasen’s wicket with Breetzke catching. New batter – David Bedingham. DSG need 51 runs from 51 balls. 109/4 Buttler (21) Bedingham (1)

Thirteenth Over: WICKET – Spinner Muthusamy has to slow the run rate and does well until a four on ball three. Redemption for the bowler as he gets Buttler (22) to send a sitter of a catch to Bairstow. 118/5 Bedingham (9) Livingstone (0)

Fourteenth Over:Rathayake does the job and restricts DSG to 122/5 Bedingham (11) Livingstone (1)

Fifteenth Over: RETURN OF THE PACE / NO BONUS POINT – Marco Jansen bowling. Needing 35 runs from 33 balls SEC need lots of wickets or devastating bowling and fielding to win. DSG move past the 126 target for SEC to gain a bonus point. 128/5 Bedingham (13) Livingstone (5)

Sixteenth Over: SPINNER ATTACK CONTINUES – DSG close out the over on 134/5 as Rathayake bowls a valuable over. 134/5 Bedingham (16) Livingstone (8)

Seventeenth Over: BACK IN THE MIX / WICKET – Marco Jansens returns with a bit of pace. On ball 3 of the over we bid Bedingham (22) farwell – caught behind by De Kock. New Batter – Jones, DSG need 24 runs from 21 balls. A valuable over as DSG are resticted to only 3 runs. 137/6 Livingstone (10) Jones (1)

Eighteenth Over: HOPE RETURNS / WICKET – Nortje returns to attack and the crowd level of expectation of a win starts building only to reach a fever pitch as De Kock catches Livingstone (10) behind. New batter – Gerald Coetzee. Nortje gifts Coetzee 4 runs on his first ball faced. 144/7 Coetzee (6) Jones (2)

Nineteenth Over: WIPE OUT / WICKET – DSG Need 15 runs from 12 balls to win. Milne steps up – dot, dot, one, wide, SIX, wide, WICKET – Notje clean bowls Coetzee (13) – 154/8 DSG need 5 runs from 7 balls, New batter – Maphaka. 155/8 Jones (3) Maphaka (1) DSG need 4 runs from 6 balls to win.

Twentieth Over: NORTJE CLEANUP and DISAPPOINTMENT – Nortje comes in for his final over. One, Two with an Appeal (not out), Four and WIN. 162/8 Jones (7) Maphaka (1)

Result:

Durban’s Super Giants win by 2 Wickets.

Sunrisers Eastern Cape play against the Joburg Super Kings on Wednesday 14 January at 17h30 at St Georges Park.

Post-Match Awards:

Player of the Match: Tristan Stubbs (Sunrisers Eastern Cape)
It’s raining sixes match award: Tristan Stubbs (Sunrisers Eastern Cape – 1 six)
Switch Game Changer of the Match: Aiden Markram (Durban’s Super Giants)
Absa Moneyball Saver: Sunil Narine (Durban’s Super Giants – 15 dot balls)
DP World Dispatch of the Day: Marques Ackerman (Durban’s Super Giants)

Overall Team Standings:

The standings as at 11 January 2026 after the DSG win:

Sunrisers Eastern Cape – 19
Joburg Super Kings – 17
Pretoria Capitals – 15
Paarl Royals – 15
Durban’s Super Giants- 14
MI Cape Town – 10

Teams:

Sunrisers Eastern Cape:

Jonny Bairstow – Wicketkeeper-batter
Matthew Breetzke – Batter
James Coles – Allrounder
Quinton de Kock – Wicketkeeper-batter
AM Ghazanfar – Bowler
Lewis Gregory – Allrounder
Jordan Hermann – Batter
Marco Jansen – Allrounder
CJ King – Allrounder
JP King – Allrounder
Patrick Kruger – Allrounder
Adam Milne – Bowler
Senuran Muthusamy – Allrounder
Anrich Nortje – Bowler
Tharindu Ratnayake – Bowler
Lutho Sipamla – Bowler
Tristan Stubbs – Wicketkeeper-batter
Beyers Swanepoel – Allrounder
Mitchell van Buuren – Batter
Chris Wood – Bowler

Durban’s Super Giants:

Marques Ackerman – Batter
Noor Ahmad – Bowler
David Bedingham – Batter
Eathan Bosch – Bowler
Jos Buttler – Wicketkeeper-batter
Gerald Coetzee – Bowler
Devon Conway – Wicketkeeper-batter
Tony de Zorzi – Batter
Daryn Dupavillon – Bowler
Dayyaan Galiem – Allrounder
Simon Harmer – Bowler
Evan Jones – Allrounder
Heinrich Klaasen – Wicketkeeper-batter
Liam Livingstone – Allrounder
Kwena Maphaka – Bowler
Aiden Markram – Batter
Sunil Narine – Allrounder
Andile Simelane – Allrounder
Gysbert Wege – Batter
David Wiese – Allrounder
Kane Williamson – Batter