Delano Potgieter and Jasprit Bumrah
SA20: South Africa’s famous T20 league SA20 started with a bang on January 9 in which the defending champion Sunrisers Eastern Cape (SEC) had to face a crushing defeat. MI Cape Town (MICT), which had a disappointing performance last season, defeated Sunrisers badly by 97 runs. 28 year old all-rounder Delano Potgieter played an important role in this victory of MI, who did wonders with both ball and bat. Potgieter scored 25 runs in the first 12 balls to take Cape Town to 174/7 and then wreaked havoc with the ball, eliminating half of the Sunrisers team single-handedly. With this he has made a big record in his name. Potgieter took 5 wickets for 10 runs in his three overs. In this way he gave the second best performance of SA20 with the ball. Not only this, this is the best performance of any medium pacer bowler in SA20 so far.
Best bowling figures in SA20
- Roelof van der Merwe: 6/20 in 4 overs
- Delano Potgieter: 5/10 in 3 overs
- Noor Ahmed: 5/11 in 3.2 overs
- Junior Dala: 5/26 in 4 overs
- Marco Jansson: 5/30 in 4 overs
Sunrisers were already in trouble after the dismissal of Trent Boult, Azmatullah Omarzai and George Linde and then Potgieter destroyed the middle order and lower middle order with his brilliant bowling. Potgieter came to bowl in the 11th over when the defending champions had lost 4 wickets at the score of 48 runs. After this, all-rounder Potgieter created a sensation by taking three wickets in his very first over. He opened his account by dismissing No. 6 Bearse Swanepoel with his first ball and dismissed David Bedingham with his third ball. Then on the 5th ball of the over, Potgieter took his third victim in the form of Aiden Markram.
Potgieter, who took 3 wickets in his very first over, returned in the 13th over and this time he dismissed Liam Dawson. Liam Dawson could score only 6 runs. After this, Potgieter came to bowl in the 15th over and along with showing Richard Gleeson the way to the pavilion, gave his team MI Cape Town a big win by 97 runs. Potgieter took 5 wickets in his bag. With this he joined the exclusive club of bowlers like Jasprit Bumrah and Lasith Malinga. He is the seventh bowler from the MI franchise to take a five-wicket haul in the T20 league.
MI bowlers who took five wickets in the franchise league
- Lasith Malinga: IPL vs DD in 2011
- Harbhajan Singh: IPL vs CSK in 2011
- Munaf Patel: IPL vs KXIP in 2011
- Lasith Malinga: CLT20 vs CSK in 2012
- Alzarri Joseph: IPL vs SRH in 2019
- Jasprit Bumrah: IPL vs KKR in 2022
- Aakash Madhwal: IPL vs LSG in 2023
- Jasprit Bumrah: IPL vs RCB in 2024
- Delano Potgieter: SA20 vs SEC in 2025
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