Sunrisers Eastern Cape vs Pretoria Capitals, Qualifier 1, SA20, 2025-26 - Player Highlights

Maharaj to Marco Jansen, out Caught by Connor Esterhuizen!! Jansen brings out the long levers, but he's hitting it to the longer boundary and has holed out to deep mid-wicket - this is some comeback by the Capitals in the last couple of overs. Was tossed up and the ball drifted back into the right-hander - Jansen backed himself to clear the deep mid-wicket boundary with the slog-sweep, but he's dragged it slightly, went hard and flat - Esterhuizen settles under it, slides forward and completes a low two-handed catch. Marco Jansen c Connor Esterhuizen b Maharaj 1(4)

Maharaj to Marco Jansen, no run, the arm-ball from Maharaj - Jansen backs away and jabs it to cover-point

Maharaj to Marco Jansen, no run, pushed through on middle, blocked back at the bowler

Maharaj to Stubbs, 1 run, nicely tossed up outside off - driven down to long-off for a single

Maharaj to Marco Jansen, 1 run, Maharaj drifts one on the leg-stump line - nudged in front of square on the on-side for a single

Maharaj to Stubbs, 1 run, flighted delivery outside off - punched down to long-off for a single

Maharaj to Stubbs, no run, pushed through flatter and quicker of off, Stubbs goes hard on the cut and mistimes it to cover

Maharaj to Jordan Hermann, 1 run, slower and drifting onto the left-hander - Hermann gets down low and pulls it past square leg for a single

Maharaj to Stubbs, 1 run, flighted delivery on middle, punched down to long-off - Stubbs wanted a second and is quickly asked to go back

Maharaj to Jordan Hermann, 1 run, Jordan Hermann brings out the reverse sweep, rolled his wrists over the shot and picks out backward point

Maharaj to Stubbs, 1 run, tossed up on off, Stubbs stays leg-sided and pushes it into the gap wide of cover, off the mark with a single

Maharaj to Bairstow, out Lbw!! That looked pretty straight and Bairstow has been given OUT. He looks around and then reviews. Slid back into the right-hander and Bairstow was struck on his back-thigh as he went down on the sweep - the height isn't an issue and this looks very adjacent - no bat and UltraEdge confirms the same, onto ball-tracking: Impact is umpire's call on off-stump and it's crashing into the middle of middle-stump - Sunrisers lose Bairstow, but they don't lose their review. Big wicket for the Capitals - Bairstow was just past his fifty and could've cause a lot of damage. Bairstow lbw b Maharaj 50(36) [4s-6 6s-1]

Maharaj to Bairstow, FOUR, the reverse-sweep for four again! Bairstow not letting Maharaj settle here. Idea is to bowl wide to keep it away from the short leg-side boundary but Bairstow gets the reverse-sweep away past short third

Maharaj to Jordan Hermann, 1 run, drifting across off, full ball, Hermann drives wide of extra cover who makes a diving stop

Maharaj to Bairstow, 1 run, very full and wide, fired in by Maharaj, Bairstow shuffles across for a slog-sweep and drags it off the under-edge through midwicket

Maharaj to Bairstow, no run, inside edge saves him! Went for the slog-sweep but dragged it off the edge onto pad

Maharaj to Bairstow, 2 runs, was initially going for the sweep but then changed his shot. Low full toss at the stumps, he works it through midwicket and charges back for two more

Maharaj to Bairstow, 2 runs, tossed up on a good length outside off, Bairstow waits in the crease, cuts nicely through backward point and is back for two

Maharaj to Bairstow, wide, very wide outside off, Bairstow goes for a reverse-sweep but fails to reach out

Maharaj to Bairstow, FOUR, misfield from Chase and it runs away! Length ball at the stumps, reverse-swept nicely but it should've been cut off at backward point. But it sneaks right through Chase as he dives to his right

Maharaj to Bairstow, no run, slow and wide outside off, Bairstow lets it go expecting a wide and is surprised that it's not called. Might've been just inside the marker

Maharaj to Jordan Hermann, 1 run, slow through the air, full on middle and leg, Hermann makes room for a big shot and drags it off the inside half to long-on

Maharaj to Jordan Hermann, no run, goes for a reverse-sweep but misses! Gets stuck in the flap of his pad

Maharaj to Bairstow, 1 run, fired in full at the stumps, Bairstow shuffles across and works it through midwicket

Maharaj to Bairstow, no run, good length on off, turns away, Bairstow defends to backward point