MI Cape Town vs Sunrisers Eastern Cape Predictions - Big-scoring Rickelton to push MICT closer to the playoffs

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Ryan Rickelton (324 runs, ave 54.00) is 1st on the SA20 runs list.
Quinton de Kock scored 54 off 37 balls against the Super Kings.
Can MI Cape Town pull off a big win against the Sunrisers to keep their hopes of making it into the playoffs alive?

Ryan Rickelton sweeps against Australia (Getty Images).

MI Cape Town vs Sunrisers Eastern Cape Predictions

MI Cape Town had a terrible start to the season but have begun to string some wins together. The Sunrisers are top of the table but have only one win in their last three matches. MI Cape Town have beaten them in their last three meetings, so I’m backing MI Cape Town to pull off a win in this must-win clash.

MI Cape Town vs Sunrisers Eastern Cape Predictions
Head-to-Head
MI Cape Town Form
Sunrisers Eastern Cape Form
MI Cape Town vs Sunrisers Eastern Cape Team News

MI Cape Town’s Ryan Rickelton has scored two centuries this season - 113 against the Super Giants and 113* against the Super Kings.
MI Cape Town’s Reeza Hendricks hit four sixes in his 68* off 50 balls vs the Capitals.
Sunrisers Eastern Cape’s Quinton de Kock has scored 79* & 54 in his last 3 innings.
Sunrisers Eastern Cape’s James Coles scored 61 off 34 balls against the Super Kings.

Head-to-Head

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

MI Cape Town Form

After beating the Super Kings in back-to-back matches, MI Cape Town slipped to a 53-run defeat against second-placed Pretoria Capitals.

Ryan Rickelton has been in stunning form for MI Cape Town this season, scoring 113, 33, 36 and 113* in his 7 innings at an average of 54.00. He has smoked 25 fours and 24 sixes. Rassie van der Dussen is fourth on the runs list with 218 runs, including 59, 35 and 65 in his last five innings. Reeza Hendricks hit form again by top-scoring with 68* off 50 balls against the Capitals.

Kagiso Rabada and George Linde are joint 7th on the wickets list with seven wickets apiece. Skipper Rashid Khan is one spot back with six wickets, while paceman Trent Boult has five wickets under his belt.

Sunrisers Eastern Cape Form

The Sunrisers have been frustrated with two abandoned matches in their last five, winning two and losing one of those games.

Quinton de Kock has rocketed back to form and has been one of the tournament’s most consistent batters, racking up 272 runs (ave 54.40) at a strike-rate of 160.00. Jonny Bairstow is 9th on the runs list, scoring 33, 85*, 11 and 18 in his last four matches.

The Sunrisers’ bowling has been a major component of their success this season, with four bowlers in the top nine of the wickets list. Anrich Nortje has terrorised opponents in taking 12 wickets at an economy rate of 6.88. Adam Milne is on 10 wickets and Senuran Muthusamy is on seven, taking 2/20 and 3/26 in his last two matches. Marco Jansen is also on seven wickets, his coming at an economy rate of just 7.28.

MI Cape Town vs Sunrisers Eastern Cape Team News

MI Cape Town captain Rashid Khan admitted that his side were too loose with ball in hand against the Capitals: "We should have restricted them to under 160. Throughout the tournament, we've struggled with our death bowling, giving away too many runs in the final overs, including today. That's an area where you lose all momentum heading into the next innings. We had them under control for the first 12 or 13 overs, but the way they finished took the game away from us. These last two games are vital; anything can happen on the table, so we'll take it one game at a time," said Khan, who has signed off from the SA as he is set to join up with the Afghanistan national team for their three-match T20 series against the West Indies as a lead-up to the T20 World Cup.

Tristan Stubbs was delighted with his side’s 61-run win over the Super Kings. "We did the basics really well today on a pretty standard St. George's wicket. That is what the game requires here, and we really executed those fundamentals. The way it spun, you generally feel that if you are struggling as a batter, it is going to be hard for the opposition too. I thought if we could get ten runs per over in the last five, it would be a good score," said Stubbs.

MI Cape Town (squad): Rashid Khan (c), Ryan Rickelton (w), Tom Moores (w), Nicholas Pooran (w), Reeza Hendricks, Daniel Lategan, Rassie van der Dussen, Jason Smith, Corbin Bosch, Thomas Kaber, Karim Janat, George Linde, Dwaine Pretorius, Jacques Snyman, Tiaan van Vuuren, Trent Boult, Tristan Luus, Dane Piedt and Kagiso Rabada.

Sunrisers Eastern Cape (squad): Jonny Bairstow, Quinton de Kock (w), Tristan Stubbs (c), Lewis Gregory, Matthew Breetzke, Marco Jansen, Patrick Kruger, Senuran Muthusamy, Adam Milne, Anrich Nortje, Chris Wood, Allah Ghazanfar, JP King, Christopher King, Jordan Hermann, Mitchell Van Buuren, Tharindu Rathnayake, James Coles, Beyers Swanepoel, Lutho Sipamla.

Verdict

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I am backing MI Cape Town to win, with Ryan Rickelton to top score.

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