South Africa T20 League

12th Match: MICT vs SEC

Preview

The 12th match of the ongoing South Africa T20 League will be played between MICT and SEC franchises. The game is scheduled at Newlands in Cape Town on Wednesday, January 18, 2023. 

Cape Town is ruling the points chart, equally sharing the wins and losses in 4 matches played so far while Eastern Cape is sitting in the 5th spot with only 1 win in 3 matches. 

MICT and SEC clashed previously in the 9th match of this SA T20 League 2023. MICT in that match posted a total of 158 runs at the loss of 8 wickets. Their top order failed to show their firepower, hence the lower order took the situation into their hand. George Linde remained unbeaten, smashing 63 runs off just 28 balls. The opponent bowlers did a pretty well job as Baartman picked 3 wickets along with skipper Markram and Magala getting two wickets a piece. 

In the second innings, SEC openers Adam Rossington and JJ Smuts failed to put an impact but Sarel Erwee took the charge and posted 41 runs off 35 deliveries along with skipper Aiden Markram also hitting a half-century with the bat. Later Tristan Stubbs added another 30 runs off 18 balls to get closer to the victory. James Fuller shot a boundary off the third ball of Odean Smith’s over to seal the victory by 4 wickets. Odean Smith took 3 wickets in just 2.3 overs and Sam Curran picked two but failed to stop the Cape town side. 

Match Details

Match: MICT vs SEC, 12th Match, South Africa T20 League

Date: Wednesday, January 18, 2023

Time: 5:00 PM

Venue: Newlands, Cape Town

Pitch & Weather Report

The Newlands Cricket Ground is traditionally a bowler-friendly pitch. It delivers effective bounce and seam movement at the beginning so that pace bowlers will be challenging to face in the first six overs or so. 

The weather foreseen in Cape Town on the matchday will be mostly cloudy with a 20% chance of precipitation. The highest and lowest temperature will be 23 and 18 degrees Celsius. Humidity will be at 82% and wind will be flowing at 23 kmph.

MICT vs SEC Squads

MICT: Dewald Brevis, Ryan Rickelton, Rassie van der Dussen, Grant Roelofsen (wk), Sam Curran, George Linde, Delano Potgieter, Odean Smith, Rashid Khan (c), Kagiso Rabada, Olly Stone, Waqar Salamkheil, Jofra Archer, Wesley Marshall, Duan Jansen, Ziyaad Abrahams, Liam Livingstone, Beuran Hendricks

SEC: Sarel Erwee, Adam Rossington (wk), JJ Smuts, Jordan Cox, Aiden Markram (c), Tristan Stubbs, Roelof van der Merwe, Marco Jansen, James Fuller, Sisanda Magala, Ottniel Baartman, Junaid Dawood, Jordan Hermann, Mason Crane, Tom Abell, Ayabulela Gqamane, Brydon Carse, Marques Ackerman

MICT vs SEC Probable XIs

MICT: Dewald Brevis, Ryan Rickelton, Rassie van der Dussen, Grant Roelofsen (wk), Sam Curran, George Linde, Delano Potgieter, Odean Smith, Rashid Khan (c), Kagiso Rabada, Olly Stone

SEC: Sarel Erwee, Adam Rossington (wk), JJ Smuts, Jordan Cox, Aiden Markram (c), Tristan Stubbs, Roelof van der Merwe, Marco Jansen, James Fuller, Sisanda Magala, Ottniel Baartman

Match Prediction

MICT has a much more balanced batting and bowling side when compared to that of SEC. The Eastern Cape side has a well-organised bowling attack but needs to improve in their batting department as relying on one or two players will not work for all of the matches. Keeping in mind, the present conditions, we expect MICT to win this match and make it their second victory against the SEC side.

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