Sunrisers Eastern Cape vs MI Cape Town, 29th Match, SA20, 2025-26

Matthew Breetzke | Player of the Match: Very happy, very relieved. Yeah, it's a special occasion having my family here and to do it in front of the home crowd was really cool. (on difficulties in chasing here) Yeah, I mean, we saw in their innings at the backend how quickly you can score. So it's about giving that platform and then scoring in those last four overs. The wickets haven't been easy in the SA20. So you've got to build your innings and work the singles and twos and then the boundaries come. (on the pitch) To be fair, I mean, this is a typical St George's wicket, 160 is par score here. So I knew that going into the chase, I knew it wasn't going to be easy, but I knew I had to give myself time and at the end I would catch up. (how is his form?) Yeah, a little bit. I started off the comp well and then went through a little phase where I sort of made to change my game now because the wickets, like I said, haven't been easy. So it's about actually building an innings and trying to get to the last four and then having some fun. (on batting with de Kock) Yeah, it's been very clear from the coaching staff. I think that sort of innings I've played today is probably my role in the team. And obviously Quinny there at the other end, just nice and relaxed. He's awesome to bat with and he keeps it really simple. Yeah, look, I mean, me and Quinny, we're really close. He took me for a net before the game today and we just worked on a few things. But it was just more about keeping each other calm because we knew it wasn't easy and when you dot up like that, you can sort of fall to the pressure and luckily we didn't today.

Tristan Stubbs | SEC captain: I think we... a really good performance and perfect to take a lot of momentum into the playoffs. And yeah, I think the boys were up for today and we were given thrown a bit of adversity there with Milney and the way everyone got together, rode together and in the field just set us up to chase it down with the bat. (how challenging was it to plan without Milne?) I think thank goodness it's fine, otherwise it might have been a bit different. But no, the senior boys, we got together, we chatted, we came up with a plan and I think everyone backed up the bowlers in the field and it was a good bowling performance. (bonus point discussed?) In the chase? Yeah, in the chase. Not at all? Not at all. We wanted four points today. (on the pitch) I think they batted beautifully. The way Quinny and Breeto absorbed and then Breetzky's batted here so much at St. George's. That's sort of how you chase down 150 here. That's why I was a bit surprised when you asked about the bonus point because it gets harder and harder to bat and once you're in, yeah, it's a lot easier. So thankfully they were out there. (a confident outfit, how important is that?) Yeah, I think we've got a nice thing going with the senior players, the way we're chatting to each other and winning always helps and hopefully now we can take some momentum into the playoffs. (message to the crowd) Yeah, I think the crowd deserves a mention. They were awesome today. Yeah, they've been fantastic the whole tournament and we've owed them a win here on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon and we're very thankful for them.

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