Scenario of the 19th Match - Paarl Royals vs Durban Super Giants - SA20 2024

What was the scenario of the (19th) match, contested between Paarl Royals vs Durban Super Giants? Let’s check out the overview of this SA20 2024 contest.

This was the contest between the leaders of the points table but the victory fell into the Durban Super Giants’ lap. The team won the match by (57) runs. Super Giants’ middle-order batsmen added a good score to the scoreboard. Let’s check out the detailed information about the match.

Match Overview

First Innings

Durban Super Giants won the toss and opted to bat.

The Boland Park pitch did not bring any good to the top-order batsmen, the team started to lose hope. To confront, the middle-order batsmen performed exceptionally well, Smuts, de Kock, and Klaasen added a total of (165) runs.

• Smuts scored (52) runs off (39) balls.
• De Kock scored (83) runs off (51) balls, and was not out.
• Klassen scored (30) runs off (9) balls, and was not out.

With this batting effort, the team managed to leave a target of (191) runs for the opponent team to chase. Paarl Royals’ bowling end was quite weak. The bowlers incurred many runs but didn’t take many wickets. Only Fortunin, Ngidi, and McCoy took only one wicket each.

Second Innings

Now Paarl Royals had to chase a score of (191) runs. The team failed miserably to chase the same. Top, middle, and bottom order, all could not score more than (150) runs collectively. Only Joss Butler could add a score of (45) runs but that effort was not enough.

The Royals’ bowlers managed to stop the batters, the team was washed in the (19.3) overs. The bowlers did a great job. All the playing bowlers took at least one wicket each. Stoinis, Topley, and Maharaj, took (3), (2), (2) wickets respectively. Whereas, Smuts, Naveen-ul-Haq, and Ahmad took a single wicket each.