Joburg Super Kings vs MI Cape Town Predictions - Van der Dussen to power past the Super Kings

Simon Lewis

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Last updated: 09 Jan 2026

Simon Lewis 09 Jan 2026

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Rassie van der Dussen has scored 28, 59 & 35 in his last four innings.
James Vince hit three sixes in his 43-ball 75 against the Royals.
Can MI Cape Town claim their second win of the season by beating the Super Kings?

Rassie van der Dussen cuts against Pakistan (Getty Images).

Joburg Super Kings vs MI Cape Town Predictions

After winning their first three matches, the Super Kings have suffered the frustration of two abandoned matches and a DLS defeat in the last over against MI Cape Town at Newlands. MI Cape Town are in a desperate fight to climb up to the playoff places and will throw everything at the Super Kings.

Joburg Super Kings vs MI Cape Town Predictions
Head-to-Head
Joburg Super Kings Form
MI Cape Town Form
Joburg Super Kings vs MI Cape Town Team News

MI Cape Town’s Rassie van der Dussen has scored 66 of his 138 runs in sixes.
MI Cape Town’s Ryan Rickelton has scored 113, 33 & 36 in his 5 SA20 innings.
Joburg Super Kings’ James Vince has scored 90 runs at a strike-rate of 173.07.
Joburg Super Kings’ Faf du Plessis has scored 47, 44 & 39 in his last 3 knocks.

Head-to-Head

MI Cape Town have won three and lost two of their last five SA20 matches against Joburg Super Kings, including winning the last two in a row.

Joburg Super Kings Form

The Super Kings have gone three matches without a win. They made 187/6 off their 20 overs against the Royals when the floodlights failed and the match was abandoned.

Faf du Plessis is 8th on the runs list (135 runs, S/R 11.68) after scores of 47, 44 and 39 in his last three knocks. Matthew de Villiers has played three valuable cameo innings in his last three matches (38, 21 & 30).

Richard Gleeson is his side’s leading wicket-taker and is joint-second on the wickets list (9 wickets at 14/11). Akeal Hosein picked up 2/31 against MI Cape Town and Duan Jansen took 4/23 against the Capitals.

MI Cape Town Form

MI Cape Town ended their three-match losing streak by clinching a thrilling home win over the Super Kings by four wickets after rain interruptions.

Ryan Rickelton leads the sixes list in the series with 15 sixes and 16 fours (204 runs total, S/R 164.51). Nicholas Pooran and Rassie van der Dussen have both hit 11 sixes in the tournament. Jason Smith has scored 69 runs off 41 balls to top the strike-rate list (222.58).

Corbin Bosch (3/24) and Rashid Khan (2/23) did the damage against the Super Kings to give their batters a chaseable target. The pair have taken six and five wickets respectively, while George Linde and Trent Boult have both picked up four wickets for their side in the tournament.

Joburg Super Kings vs MI Cape Town Team News

Faf du Plessis took confidence from the match, despite suffering the defeat: "We played a good game. Cloudy conditions made it tough to catch. Wet conditions made fielding difficult as well as death bowling, but otherwise our boys have been doing well."

MI Cape Town skipper Rashid Khan was delighted about his side picking up their first win of the season against the Super Giants: "After the first bowling powerplay, the way we came back was a brilliant effort. Chasing that was something amazing. Pooran is famous for those shots and that's what we are expecting from him. The blasting innings in the middle is needed for that 250-300 strike-rate. It was a long wait for a win after last year's final – this will give us so much energy."

Joburg Super Kings (possible XI): Faf du Plessis (c), Matthew de Villiers, James Vince, Donovan Ferreira, Akeal Hosein, Shubham Ranjane, Wiaan Mulder, Nandre Burger, Richard Gleeson, Janco Smit, Dian Forrester.

MI Cape Town (possible XI): MI Cape Town: Rassie van der Dussen, Ryan Rickelton (wk), Nicholas Pooran, Jason Smith, Jacques Snyman, Karim Janat, George Linde, Rashid Khan (c), Kagiso Rabada, Trent Boult, Corbin Bosch

Verdict

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