MI Cape Town Vs Proteas Capital In SA20: On the last day of the year 2025 i.e. December 31, 2025, an amazing performance was seen in South Africa’s T20 league SA20. The 8th match of this tournament was played between Proteas Capital and MI Cape Town at Newlands, in which the stormy style of Sherfane Rutherford and Dewald Brewis was seen. Both of them created such a blast with their bats in the last overs that the victory of Pretoria Capitals was sealed in the match. In this match, Rutherford and Brewis also hit 6 sixes in 6 consecutive balls. Apart from this, the batting combination between the two was such that Mumbai Indians thrashed the Cape Town bowlers.

Rutherford and Brewis scored 83 runs in 28 balls.

Sherfane Rutherford scored 47 runs in 15 balls at a strike rate of 313.33, which included 6 sixes, in the match played against Mumbai Indians Cape Town. His teammate Dewald Brevis also scored 36 runs in 13 balls at a strike rate of 276.92, in which he hit 4 sixes and 1 four. That is, both the batsmen together made a strong partnership of 83 runs in just 28 balls with the help of 1 four and 10 sixes.

6 sixes hit in 6 consecutive balls

Rutherford and Brewis together hit a total of 10 sixes in their 28-ball partnership, out of which both of them hit 6 sixes consecutively. Hitting 6 consecutive sixes started from the 5th ball of the 18th over of the Pretoria Capitals innings and continued till the 4th ball of the 19th over. Brewis started the game, hitting two sixes on the last two balls of Corbin Bosch, who was bowling the 18th over. Then Sherfane Rutherford, who came to bowl the 19th over, hit 4 sixes one after the other on the first 4 balls of Pretorius.

Became the hero of Proteas Capitals’ victory

Thanks to this stormy and unbeaten innings of Sherfane Rutherford and Dewald Brewis, Pretoria Capitals set a huge target of 221 runs, chasing which the entire MI Cape Town team could score only 135 runs and lost the match by 85 runs.

This match played in South Africa’s SA20 League became one of the most memorable matches of T20 cricket. In this match between Mumbai Indians Cape Town and Pretoria Capitals, the batsmen created such a storm that the fans were stunned. Especially what happened in the last overs made the match completely one-sided.

Batsmen wreaked havoc in the last overs

The turning point of the match proved to be the 18th and 19th overs. Dewald Brevis had indicated that something big was going to happen in the next over by hitting two consecutive sixes on the last two balls of the 18th over. After this, Sherfane Rutherford took charge in the 19th over and hit four sixes in the first four balls. In this way, 6 sixes were hit in 6 consecutive balls and the Mumbai Indians bowlers were completely on the back foot.

Brewis-Rutherford’s explosive partnership

Dewald Brewis and Sherfane Rutherford together made an unbeaten partnership of 83 runs in just 28 balls. Brewis scored 36 runs in 13 balls while playing at a strike rate of more than 270. During this, four sixes and one four came from his bat. Whereas Rutherford looked even more dangerous. He scored 47 runs in 15 balls and his strike rate crossed 300. Mumbai’s bowling looked completely helpless in front of the batting of both.

Thanks to the stormy innings of these two batsmen, Pretoria Capitals made a big score of 221 runs in 20 overs. The rapid runs scored in the last overs made the target almost impossible for Mumbai Indians.

Mumbai scattered while chasing the target

Mumbai Indians, who set out to chase the target of 221 runs, had a very bad start in Cape Town. The team came under pressure due to continuous fall of wickets and no batsman could play a big innings. The entire team was reduced to 135 runs and the match proved to be completely one-sided. Pretoria Capitals won the match by a huge margin of 85 runs.

Mumbai Indians have started taking major decisions first in the ‘trade game’. After Shardul Thakur, MI has traded the dreaded West Indies batsman Sherfan Rutherford to Gujarat Titans. Last season, Rutherford was included in their squad by Gujarat Titans by paying a sum of Rs 2.6 crores. Mumbai Indians have added him to their team from Gujarat by paying the same amount.

Sherfan Rutherford scored 291 runs in 13 matches for Gujarat in IPL 2025. His strike rate was more than 157. Let us tell you that Rutherford has also played for Delhi Capitals and Royal Challengers Bangalore before this.

Sherfan Rutherford is the second player whom MI has traded to another team before IPL 2026. A few hours before that, MI franchise has confirmed the trade of Shardul Thakur. Thakur will leave LSG and play for Mumbai Indians next season. Thakur played for Lucknow Super Giants last season.

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— Mumbai Indians (@mipaltan) November 13, 2025

Kkr vs mi in mlc 2025: There was an exciting match between Mumbai Indians New York and Los Angeles Knight Riders. Mumbai Indians won this match by 8 wickets. Sherfen Rutherford played an explosive innings for KKR’s team Los Angeles Knight Riders, but Nicholas Puran and Monank Patel’s innings brought to MI New York’s account. Mumbai Indians New York won this match with 13 balls.

Knight Riders targets 155 runs

Mumbai Indians New York won the toss and decided to bowl first. The team of Los Angeles Knight Riders came out to bat first. Knight Riders scored 154 runs in this T20 match, losing 8 wickets in 20 overs. The team started very bad. Apart from Sherfen Rutherford, no player of this team could make more than 15 runs. Rutherfort scored a rage of 86 runs in 44 balls.

Mi New York’s deadly bowling

Knight Riders succumbed to Mumbai Indians New York’s deadly bowling. Trent Bolt took four wickets in this match. For this, Bolt also got the Player of the Match. Bolt took 2 wickets and Ehsan Adil, Nostush Kenzige took 1-1 wickets.

Monank-Puan’s explosive innings

After the Mumbai Indians New York bowlers, it was now the turn of the batsmen. Monank Patel, who came to open for the team, scored an innings of 56 runs in 44 balls. In this innings, Monank hit 6 fours and a six. At the same time, team captain Nicholas Puran played an unbeaten half -century in 47 balls, in which Puran hit 6 fours and 2 sixes. At the same time, Kieron Pollard finished the match early. Pollard scored an unbeaten 14 in 6 balls.

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– Mi New York (@Minycrick) July 4, 2025

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GT vs LSG highlights IPL 2025: Lucknow Super Giants have defeated Gujarat giants by 33 runs. In this match, the Lucknow team had scored a huge score of 235 runs while playing first, in response to which Gujarat was able to score 202 runs in the match till the last over, which gave them 33 runs defeat. For LSG, Mitchell Marsh Century worked, while four out of 6 GT batsmen scored more than 30.

Gujarat Titans had a target of 236 runs, in response to which he got a very good start. Shubman Gill and Sai Sudarshan had a 46 -run salute partnership, but Sai Sudarshan was dismissed for 21 runs in the fifth over. Shubman Gill is also in good rhythm, who along with Jose Butler added 39 runs. Butler was dismissed by scoring 33 and Shubman Gill also scored 35 runs in 20 balls after 11 runs. Gujarat’s 3 wickets fell on a score of 96.

From here, there was an 86 -run partnership between Sherfan Rutherford and Shah Rukh Khan, which led to the victory in Gujarat match. The victory for Gujarat began to seem easy when Rutherford was dismissed for 38 runs. By this time, Gujarat needed 54 runs in 23 balls. At one time Gujarat had scored 182 runs at the loss of 3 wickets, but such a fall of wickets started that the next 6 wickets of GT fell within 20 runs.

LSG’s strong bowling

The bowlers of Lucknow Super Gynts did not let Mitchell Marsh’s Shatka and Nicholas Puran’s 56 -run stormy innings go in vain. William O’Rurke took the most 3 wickets and Avesh Khan took 2 wickets. Ayush Badoni took 2 wickets, while Akash Singh and Shahbaz Ahmed took one wicket each. Especially in the death overs, the Lucknow bowlers wreaked havoc.

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