Sunrisers Eastern Cape vs Joburg Super Kings, 24th Match, SA20, 2025-26 - Player Highlights

Muthusamy to Akeal Hosein, 1 run, on a back of a length on middle and leg, worked to deep mid-wicket. End of a brilliant spell from Muthusamy. He finishes with figures of: 4-0-26-3

Muthusamy to Ferreira, 1 run, on a length around off, punched through cover-point

Muthusamy to Akeal Hosein, 1 run, tossed up delivery, Akeal Hosein nudges it to square leg to get off the mark

Muthusamy to Michael Pepper, out Lbw!! Michael Pepper has been trapped in front but after a consultation with Ferreira, he challenges the decision. Looked adjacent to the naked eye, Was a tossed up delivery on a length on off that drifted in nicely. It pitched and turned away slightly. Michael Pepper went for the reverse sweep but got beaten on the under-edge to get pinged on the pads. UltraEdge rolls in and shows a flat line. Over to ball-tracking and it returns three reds - it would have crashed into middle and off. The impact was actually in front of off and it kept on coming with the arm to outfox Michael Pepper. Michael Pepper lbw b Muthusamy 21(24) [4s-1]

Muthusamy to Ferreira, 1 run, short delivery coming in with the arm, pulled to deep mid-wicket

Muthusamy to Mulder, out Bowled!! Knocked him over! Muthusamy gets his second wicket! Coming in with the arm from round the wicket and it lands on a back of a length on off and skids on after landing. Mulder tries to cut it behind square on the off-side but gets beaten on the inside edge and the ball crashes into the off-stump. The on-air commentators mention that Mulder has fallen to spin for the sixth time in his last seven innings. Mulder b Muthusamy 3(5)

Muthusamy to Michael Pepper, no run, tossed up delivery, driven to covers

Muthusamy to Mulder, 1 run, on a length, worked through square leg

Muthusamy to Matthew De Villiers, out Matthew De Villiers Run Out!! 1 run completed! Coles is in the thick of things again! Was on the shorter side around leg-stump, Matthew De Villiers swiped it to the right of deep backward square leg and calls for the second run. Coles hares across to his right and dives. He hurls in a flat throw towards de Kock. He actually has to reach out to his right to collect it but he does really well to twist his body and reaches out to break the stumps. Matthew De Villiers put in the big dive but the replay shows that his bat is in the air when the bails came off. He had reached the crease but his bat popped up in the air and that proved to be his undoing. Matthew De Villiers run out (James Coles/de Kock) 9(7) [4s-1]

Muthusamy to Matthew De Villiers, FOUR, shot! On the shorter side around off, Matthew De Villiers rocks back and cuts it hard through covers. Hermann hares to his right in the deep and puts in a desperate dive but it goes in vain. Stubbs also hared across to his left and just avoided a collision with Hermann

Muthusamy to Matthew De Villiers, no run, nicely bowled! Floated delivery drifting in intially towards off. Matthew De Villiers is drawn into a booming drive but the ball turns away nicely to beat him on the outside edge. de Kock collects it and is quick to take the bails off. The replay shows that Matthew De Villiers had dragged his back foot out of the crease momentarily but dragged it inside before the bails came off

Muthusamy to Michael Pepper, 1 run, slow through the air and full outside off, Michael Pepper is early into the reverse sweep and gloves it towards point

Muthusamy to Matthew De Villiers, 1 run, slow through the air, only at 81kph, Matthew De Villiers is early into the reverse sweep and toe-ends it towards deep point to retain strike

Muthusamy to Michael Pepper, 1 run, loopy full delivery around off, swept hard to deep square leg

Muthusamy to Matthew De Villiers, 1 run, floated delivery on off, driven to long-off to get off the mark

Muthusamy to Dian Forrester, out Caught by Stubbs!! The SEC skipper pulls off a great catch! Forrester had got off to a promising start but it has been cut short courtesy some brilliance in the field. Full delivery drifting into Dian Forrester. He tries to hit it across but only manages to get it off the toe-end towards wide long-on. Stubbs hares in front and to his left. It seems like it's beyond his reach but he times his dive to perfection. He gets low and dives in front to take it inches above the ground. It was dying on him but he showed good reflexes there. Dian Forrester c Stubbs b Muthusamy 11(4) [4s-1 6s-1]

Muthusamy to Dian Forrester, FOUR, easy pickings! A dragdown outside leg, Dian Forrester says thank you very much and helps it past the right side of short fine to find the fence

Muthusamy to Michael Pepper, 1 run, Michael Pepper sweeps this one hard towards deep square leg. The fielder in the deep dives to his left to save certain runs for his side

Muthusamy to James Vince, 1 run, James Vince slices this one to sweeper cover to retain strike

Muthusamy to James Vince, 2 runs, just out of reach of Bairstow! James Vince dances down the track and Muthusamy smartly bowls it outside off well away from his reach. He can only toe-end the lofted stroke. Bairstow from mid-off backtracks but it lands beyond his reach

Muthusamy to Michael Pepper, 1 run, flighted delivery around off, Michael Pepper reverse sweeps it to the right of cover-point. Breetzke moves across and parries it to Nortje at backward point. Only a single

Muthusamy to James Vince, 1 run, 91kph full delivery drifting in from outside off, James Vince slog-sweeps it to deep mid-wicket

Muthusamy to Michael Pepper, 1 run, slow through the air and full outside off, Michael Pepper kneels across on one knee and laps it towards short fine

Muthusamy to James Vince, 1 run, tossed up full delivery on off, nudged to square leg